DeveloperGuidelines

Testing ¶

"A bug is a test case you haven't written yet"
"Unit Tests allow merciless refactoring": ​http://diveintopython.org/refactoring/refactoring.html

• ​http://diveintopython.org/unit_testing/index.html
• ​http://vallista.idyll.org/~grig/articles/

Unit Tests (must do) ¶

These should be written by the developers

• Doc Tests
  • ​http://agiletesting.blogspot.com/2005/01/python-unit-testing-part-2-doctest.html
• UnitTest
  • ​http://docs.python.org/library/unittest.html
  • ​http://agiletesting.blogspot.com/2005/01/python-unit-testing-part-1-unittest.html
  • Formerly PyUnit: ​http://pyunit.sourceforge.net/
• Py.Test
  • ​http://agiletesting.blogspot.com/2005/01/python-unit-testing-part-3-pytest-tool.html

• Rspec is an equivalent for Ruby: ​http://rspec.info/

Continuous Integration ¶

Whenever a commit is made it should be checked to see that it doesn't break anything

• ​Patch Queue Manager - integrates with Bzr
• ​http://cruisecontrol.sourceforge.net/

Regression Testing ¶

Fired by dev after certain number of changes or whenever they like.

• ​http://docs.python.org/library/test.html

Boundary Testing (should do) ¶

Checks functionality of modules against spec.
This sees the application as a black box & so the same tests could be run here against both the Python & PHP versions, for instance.

Functional tests can be written using:

• ​Selenium
• ​JMeter

This is done by the Testers who accept the Code as a result.

Integration Testing (good thing) ¶

Usability Tests ¶

Accessibility ¶

• Are we XHTML 1.0 compliant?
• Are we usable without JavaScript?

Performance Tests ¶

Whilst the Web2Py framework is fast, we should check that we're not doing anything stupid to slow it down:

• ​http://groups.google.com/group/web2py/browse_thread/thread/cf5c5bd53bc42d49

Stress Tests ¶

• ​http://tsung.erlang-projects.org/
• Siege

Security Tests ¶

Whilst the Web2Py framework is secure by design, we should validate this:

• ​http://mdp.cti.depaul.edu/examples/default/features

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