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Best practices for setting up a test suite for a python library?
note: here library means a package that is installed from some wheel/egg/tar file. as opposed to a regular package which is just a container of modules basically. package usually is used for both as ...
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Should this code be made testable? [closed]
My code looks roughly like
40 def send_pubkey( s: socket ) -> None:
41 '''Transmit own public key unencrypted.'''
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Efficient way to write test cases depending on a Micro service
I'm very new to microservice architecture. In the Monolithic app structure, it was pretty straightforward to write test cases since everything was in one app. I have a situation where I manage a ...
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Confused about how to test Python scripts that install and configure a development setup on OSX (VMware? Docker-OSX?)
In my company we hire engineers for various "disciplines"—iOS, Android, Web, Backend, Data, etc. Engineers follow an onboarding workbook to install what they need for their discipline. iOS ...
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How to write tests for a class that talks to a server without revealing connection implementation
I'm writing a class that acts as the interface to a server. The interface exposes a way to send messages to the server and pass messages back to the client through a callback. Implementations should ...
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Still don't understand when to mock and when not to
I've been trying to understand when to mock and when not to mock, however I'm not able to come up with a consistent guideline and I'm hoping to get some input on the subject. Let's look at the ...
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Should I unit test functions internally used by API I expose?
I'm writing a CRUD app in Python that exposes web API. At first I wrote functions for communicating with DB and wrote tests for these functions.
def crud():
# do something with db
def test_crud():
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Trade-off between usability and clean design
I have designed our in-house hardware testing framework. My goal is to ultimately release the framework into the public domain. Early on, my foremost design criterion was to provide a powerful yet ...
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Should I check floating point values in a unit test?
We have unit tests that are running some underlying model. We provide it with some test input, and receive some outputs + floating point scores. What's a good practice from a unit-testing standpoint? ...
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Automating performance tests for python code in a CI
My apologies in advance for a question that might seem trivial - I am a mostly solo dev in academic environment and a lot of industry best practices don't necessarily make it here.
Several of my ...
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How do you unit test methods with hard/impossible inputs to hardcode?
I have the following problem. I have a method which takes two other custom objects to work. This objects are required by the method because they have the information that the method requires to ...
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Is there a better way to run sequential tests?
I'm using unittest framework to run Python tests. Some system tests consist of a series of steps for a given scenario, and they need to run in a specific order.
For example, I have a client ...
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How can I avoid chasing my own tail when testing against complicated return values?
Sometimes there are functions that return complicated data and cannot be divided any further e.g. in the area of signal processing or when reading and decoding a bytestring to another format. How am I ...
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What's the best way to get GitLab Docker runners and Python tox to work together?
I'm trying to get a better understanding of how tox and GitLab CI (with docker runners) would work together, as they seem to have a bit of overlap in what each does. I think I may be missing something ...
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Is it possible to derive a test suite to achieve 100% path coverage? [closed]
Here is an example with the function:
Examining this I believe that it is possible to achieve 100% path coverage.
My understanding of path coverage is that you need to design test cases such that ...
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