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On 18/10/2012 01:22, Rita wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Currently, I use a shell script to test how my system behaves before I
> deploy an application. For instance, I check if fileA, fileB, and fileC
> exist and if they do I go and start up my application.
>
> This works great BUT
>
> I would like to use python and in particular unittest module to test my
> system and then deploy my app. I understand unittest is for functional
> testing but I think this too would be a case for it. Any thoughts? I am not
> looking for code in particular but just some ideas on how to use python
> better in situations like this.
>

Plenty of options here 
http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonTestingToolsTaxonomy and an active 
mailing list that I read via gmane.comp.python.testing.general

-- 
Cheers.

Mark Lawrence.