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How to keep unit tests independent?

I've read it at many places that unit tests should be independent. In my case I have a class that does data transformation. These steps must be done sequentially, otherwise they don't make sense. For ...
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Do I need to learn python first to understand the part 2 of the book Test Driven development?

It seems like Python is used as a coding language for part 2 of Kent Beck's book Test Driven Development. I have read the first part of that book and started appreciating the value of TDD . First part ...
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Behavior Driven Development and Unit Testing in Python

We might be interested in starting to incorporate a unit test suite to our project, which is coded in Python (and it uses Redis, PostgreSQL and some third-party libraries, if that bears into the ...
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scons and python unit tests best practices

I am using scons to build a large project containing a mix of C++ and Python. I would like scons to run Python unit tests either using nose or not. Currently, we have a long list of tests files and ...
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Is there a good example of Python code for unit testing an api? [closed]

Do you know any good example of Python unit testing code for testing an API? Thanks! Update: Found this very interesting question: ...
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How to populate a private container for unit test?

I have a class that defines a private (well, __container to be exact since it is python) container. I am using the information within said container as part of the logic of what the class does and ...
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Writing functional tests for a legacy project

I am trying to add a couple of tests to a legacy C project. The project basically consists of a command line tool that prints something to stdout every time an event happens. Now, since writing unit ...
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What is the typical Pythonic view on re-using python modules outside of their initial intent?

Short Question Does it fly in the face of the Pythonic view to reuse / repurpose python modules for projects out side of their intent? Background Over the past several months I have been working on ...
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Is having a switch to turn mocking on or off a code smell?

I have a method that looks like this: def foobar(mock=False, **kwargs): # ... snipped foobar actually makes several calls to Amazon S3 and returns a composed result. In order to make this ...
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What is the best way to find a python google app engine coach? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to find programming mentor? i'm a software engineer and have been building Google App Engine apps with Python for about a year. I have a pretty good familiarity with ...