On 3/27/22 18:36, Skip Montanaro wrote: >> Let's say I have a Python app and have used an undefined method somewhere. >> Let >> us further assume I have not detected it thru my tests. >> >> Is there a way to detect it before deploying the app? pylint doesn't >> notice it. >> > > This is maybe not exactly what you're looking for, but writing a test to > exercise that function call (if possible) would be top of my list. Next on > my list would be to use coverage to get a good idea of what code is not > tested. Writing more test cases to reduce the number of uncovered lines > will also make it easier to manually examine the rest of your (untested) code > to find calls to missing functions or methods. >
If the code base is large it might be difficult to have a test case for all things. But I agree that coverage is surely a good thing to use. -- Manfred -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
