Speaker
Mr
Marius Gedminas
(Programmers of Vilnius)
Description
Doctests are one way of writing automated tests in Python. Doctests can be used for
many purposes. I will demonstrate (with examples) the use of doctests for
documentation, design, unit testing, and functional/acceptance testing.
I will show some interesting features of the doctest module such as pattern matching
or diffing. I will show how to collect and aggregate doctests into
unittest-compatible test suites. I will talk about certain caveats and demonstrate
some useful techniques for writing the tests themselves.
About the author: Marius has been writing Python code for the last 4.5 years
non-stop. He is deeply convinced about the gains of automated tests, and thinks that
if you do not already write doctests for your Python code, then you should start doing so.
Primary author
Mr
Marius Gedminas
(Programmers of Vilnius)
