testing

How to write a good unit test This post provides some guidelines about how to write a good unit test. There are some examples in Python with unittest. Introduction In my last post I wrote about software quality not being taken seriously sometimes. Tests are a good part of the software quality so I wanted to write a bit about the testing effort we should be doing in our code. [Read More]

Many times we have some piece of code that is tested but is still failing in production. How is that possible? Is that because of bad tests or we have a greater hidden issue? Protect your vital functionality with integration tests Integration tests are the best way make sure that a functionality does not degradate when adding new features. What are integration tests Integration tests are tests that check a full feature of the project. [Read More]

Introduction Some years ago I did not use any tests. We were cowboys in CodeWest where only fearful and strong people survive. Sometimes we tested some actions and assumed that everything else worked fine. But for the most part, code where developed almost like our sub-conscience dictated us what to type: we were guided by instinct. Of course, users of my applications were not so amused by this when they found software faulted and had to wait to me to repair it. [Read More]