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Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 23:39:41 -0400
Subject: Re: Deployment tools using Python (was: unittest for system testing)
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On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:30 PM, Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> w=
rote:
> Rita <rmorgan466@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 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.
>
> The operating system shell, or the deployment framework of choice, is
> best suited to that I think.
>
>> 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
>100000000000000000000000000000000000000000
> Well, unittest is for unit testing (testing of small isolated units of
> the code). There are many definitions of =93functional testing=94, and I
> don't think =91unittest=92 is a good choice for any of them.
>
>> but I think this too would be a case for it.
>
> Reserve the term =93testing=94 for testing the code of your application, =
I'd
> recommend. Libraries designed for =93testing=94 are not good outside that
> domain.
>
>> Any thoughts?
>
The unittests are just a basic framework to build upon. Logging and
testing your own functions/classes is something that come in the
pre-algorithm of the app you wish to deploy.


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