Hi Stephen Thanks for the guidance - I’ll have to admit I don’t know much about how to do such things right so the more guidance you are willing to give the better. Most of my code so far has been for me and no-one else so my next task is to learn how to write tests properly.
thanks Andrew On 12 Dec 2014, at 12:45 pm, Stephen J. Turnbull <step...@xemacs.org> wrote: Andrew Stuart writes: > I’m writing an authenticating proxy for the Mailman REST API and > want to make sure everything works as expected against real > infrastructure (Postgres/Postfix/Sqlalchemy/Falcon). Determining that "things work as expected against real infrastructure" is not what the test suite does. AFAIK we don't have any such tests, and I don't really see how the tests we do have can be adapted to "tests against real infrastructure". The problem is specifying what to expect of real infrastructure. You could, for example, write tests that insert users, query for them, and then delete them, but this has several problems. Do you want to do these tests on "live" servers that might actually be in use? -- Probably not, but how do you prevent that? Attributes of the various objects created by the system may depend on context. -- The test needs to ignore any differences due merely to different context. Coverage is necessarily imperfect in the sense that some internal state changes can't be checked since the "before" state is indeterminate in a live system. And so on. _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
