Testing

• Oct 7 2010 - lowering impedance of TDD with python mock ... So after my post about gaeunit a few weeks ago I’ve since completely thrown out what I was doing there and moved to vanilla python unit tests. I ended up making this move for a few reasons.  1. I was never running my tests. GAEUnit was nice, but slow. Even when running tests in parallel I still had to go through the process of opening the browser, navigating to the right place and letting the tests run.
• Aug 20 2010 - Unicode woes and Python unit testing in GAE ... One of the really cool aspects of deploying to Google’s cloud offering (GAE) versus the more machine oriented Microsoft Azure and AmazonEC2 approaches are that you really are only dealing with computing resources. You deploy your app not to any particular server, but to the cloud itself. Despite the very real challenges in distributing work across data centers I am still filled with visions of automagical propagation and distribution and unlimited elastic computing.
• Apr 30 2009 - From test spy to Verify() with Moq ... Moq is now my favorite unit testing framework for .NET, and a great poster child for the power of the lambda expression support added to C#. If you are not doing unit tests or Test Driven Development you should, and if you already are and have not checked out Moq, you should. My tests previous to Moq were using NMock, a very handy tool that looks like a lot of other mock frameworks.
• Jul 20 2008 - Networks, Assignment 1 ... I just finished my first assignment in a beginning networking course I’m taking and I am so far pretty impressed with how interesting this stuff is. I have a working knowledge of networking that includes decent understanding of the application layer, high level knowledge of the transport layer and basically just awareness of the link layer. It’s pretty rare that in my position as a developer that I need to answer questions about the link layer.