Another interesting PyCon talk to watch was Best practices for impossible deadlines. One of the tools mentioned in the talk is Bees with machine guns, a load testing tool that uses the power of EC2 and with a name like that I was gleeful thinking about the day when I …
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A Quick and Incomplete Intro to Jasmine | Javascript unit testing
Recently I needed to find some sort of Javascript framework to start unit testing new code, some of which was using jQuery. I ended up deciding on Jasmine.
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- Primarily and essentially, it's maintained, it seems fairly active and has a community around it: looking at the pull requests …
Testing django admin customisations
In preparation for an upgrade, I've been writing unit tests for a Django app with the help of a fantastic book -- Django 1.1 Testing and Debugging by Karen M. Tracey, there'll be a review coming up when I finish it.
I had some issues with the code to test …
read morePython Ireland February meet-up | Introduction, unit testing
A delayed summary of Python Ireland's February meet-up last Wednesday -- another great event, after which I promptly fell sick (getting ready to kick ass again now though :)). In January, the group had a simple and nice "pub meet-up", where a few Python beginners and novices turned up (including one who's …
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