I love using git bisect and git bisect run to know when things broke, but that only works if the commit history is generally clean - ie there are aren't commits with broken tests.
The basic idea, given a failing test, and a test command (for the sake of illustration let's …
Writing better tests is a lifelong pursuit, apparently.
One thing I've been noticing lately, especially while doing code reviews, is that we are usually thinking about how do I know the code worked.
Great! But we are usually not thinking ahead about what am I going to do when the …
In Python we often use the mock library to do dependency injection for
tests. Recently I came across a really confounding edge case that can be easily
avoided if you know about it.
(Skip this section if you're already familiar with mock.)
Let's say we have a …
A little tip for working with the mock library.
Let's say you need to set up some child attributes, like
for example you're mocking up a django.contrib.auth.User,
and you want it to be a logged in user:
>>> user = mock.Mock()
>>> user.username = 'Bob'
>>> user.is_authenticated.return_value = True …Page 1 / 1