On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:30 PM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > Rita <rmorgan...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Currently, I use a shell script to test how my system behaves before I >> deploy an application. For instance, I check if fileA, fileB, and >> fileC exist and if they do I go and start up my application. > > The operating system shell, or the deployment framework of choice, is > best suited to that I think. > >> This works great BUT >> >> I would like to use python and in particular unittest module to test my >> system and then deploy my app. I understand unittest is for functional >> testing >100000000000000000000000000000000000000000 > Well, unittest is for unit testing (testing of small isolated units of > the code). There are many definitions of “functional testing”, and I > don't think ‘unittest’ is a good choice for any of them. > >> but I think this too would be a case for it. > > Reserve the term “testing” for testing the code of your application, I'd > recommend. Libraries designed for “testing” are not good outside that > domain. > >> Any thoughts? > The unittests are just a basic framework to build upon. Logging and testing your own functions/classes is something that come in the pre-algorithm of the app you wish to deploy.
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