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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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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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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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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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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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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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Test case as a function or test case as a class

I am having a design problem in test automation:- Requirements - Need to test different servers (using unix console and not GUI) through automation framework. Tests which I'm going to run - Unit, ...
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How can I do test automation using a python script to test a c program?

I was wondering if I can use a Python script to test a C program automatically. Suppose I have a very simple C program which reads data (numbers as test cases) from the console, calculates them, then ...