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2007

Test stubbing httplib2. Nice demonstration of monkey-patching as part of unit testing in Python.

# 10th May 2007, 11:24 pm / httplib2, joe-gregorio, monkeypatching, python, testing

The joy of pdb.set_trace(). I use nosetests --pdb-failures as my main entrypoint for Python debugging—it starts the debugger at the first failing test.

# 25th April 2007, 11:37 pm / debugging, nose, pdb, python, testing

Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image (via) Microsoft have made free VPC images of IE 6 and IE 7 available for testing, but they expire in August.

# 20th April 2007, 4:47 pm / ie7, internet-explorer, microsoft, testing, virtualization

I don't do test driven development. I do stupidity driven testing... I wait until I do something stupid, and then write tests to avoid doing it again.

— Titus Brown

# 25th February 2007, 2:44 pm / tdd, titusbrown, testing, pycon

2006

Dependency injection is the enterprisey name for trampling over namespaces with reckless abandon.

— Ted Dziuba

# 16th December 2006, 1:05 am / python, testing

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