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Hi Everyone,
I've recently been reading some articles about unit-testing in Python
[1] [2], but I am a bit confused: where do I go to get started with
this? I tried googling for "unittest" but all I've found are some old
links to projects that already use it, and the older (as the articles
put it) PyUnit project. I'm sorry if this is a obvious question or one
that has already been answered, but unit-testing sounds interesting and
I'm not sure where to start.

Thanks,
Ryan Kaulakis

Jul 18 '05
11 2328
A great place to start for TDD-related stuff is testdriven.com. On the
topic of Python-specific unit testing, there's also a recent thread on
the newly-created extreme-python google group:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...cf6c844f?tvc=2

Grig

====
http://agiletesting.blogspot.com

Jul 18 '05 #11
No-nonsense PyUnit skeleton: http://www.python.org/moin/PyUnit

Copy & Paste.

Though there's a new module,
[http://codespeak.net/py/current/doc/test.html py.test,] that's easier
in many ways.

Jul 18 '05 #12

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