On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 6:24 AM Dieter Maurer <die...@handshake.de> wrote: > > o1bigtenor wrote at 2023-10-24 07:22 -0500: > > ... > >Is there a way to verify that a program is going to do what it is > >supposed to do even > >before all the hardware has been assembled and installed and tested? > > Others have already noted that "verify" is a very strong aim.
I have worked in environments where everything was 100% tested. Errors were either corrected or one's attendance was uninvited. Powerful impetus to do a good job. > > There are different kinds of errors. > > Some can be avoided by using an integrated development environment > (e.g. misspellings, type mismatches, ...). Haven't heard of a python IDE - - - doesn't mean that there isn't such - - just that I haven't heard of such. Is there a python IDE? > > Some can be found via tests. > Look at Python's "unittest" package for learn how to write tests. > "unittest.mock" can help you to mockup hardware you do not yet have. Thanks - - -more to look into. Regards -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
