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Nose 0.11 released. My favourite Python testing tool just got some really neat new features, including the ability to parallelize tests across multiple processes (hence CPUs) using the multiprocess module, Xunit XML output for integration with continuous integration tools and a --failed switch to re-run only the last batch of failed tests.

# 8th May 2009, 11:24 am / multiprocess, nose, python, testing, unittest, xunit

Django Unit Tests and Transactions. If you’re using a transactional database engine (MySQL with InnoDB, Postgres or SQLite) you can speed things up by running each of your unit tests inside a transaction and rolling back in tearDown().

# 7th July 2008, 2:14 pm / django, innodb, mysql, postgresql, python, sqlite, transactions, unittest, unittesting