On Feb 16, 7:38 pm, Phlip <phlip2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > This paper _almost_ gets the > idea:http://www.netobjectives.com/download/Code%20Qualities%20and%20Practi... > > > Do you run your tests after the fewest possible edits? Such as 1-3 > lines of code? >
Hi! I run my tests all the time (they almost replaced debugger in my IDE). But there are times, when I can't just run tests after 1-3 lines of code. For example, I am developing an application that talks to some web service. One of methods of a class, which implements API for a given web service, should parse xml response from web service. At first, I hardcoded returned values, so that they looked like already parsed. But further, additional tests forced me to actually operate with sample xml data instead of hardcoded values. So I created sample xml file that resembled response from server. And after that I can't just write 1-3 lines between each test. Because I need to read() the file and sort it out in a loop (at least 6-9 lines of code for small xml file). And only after this procedure I run my tests with the hope that they all pass. Maybe it's not proper TDD, but I can't figure out how to reduce period between running tests in a case above. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
