Re: unittest for system testing

2012-10-18 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Sorry for breaking threading, but the original post has not come through to me. > On 18/10/2012 01:22, Rita wrote: > Hi, > > 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

Re: unittest for system testing

2012-10-17 Thread Dave Angel
On 10/17/2012 08:22 PM, Rita wrote: > Hi, > > 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. > > This works great BUT > > I would like to use py

Re: Deployment tools using Python (was: unittest for system testing)

2012-10-17 Thread Dwight Hutto
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:59 PM, alex23 wrote: > On Oct 18, 1:39 pm, Dwight Hutto wrote: >> Logging and >> testing your own functions/classes is something that come in the >> pre-algorithm of the app you wish to deploy. > > What is a pre-algorithm? > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: Deployment tools using Python (was: unittest for system testing)

2012-10-17 Thread alex23
On Oct 18, 1:39 pm, Dwight Hutto wrote: > Logging and > testing your own functions/classes is something that come in the > pre-algorithm of the app you wish to deploy. What is a pre-algorithm? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Deployment tools using Python (was: unittest for system testing)

2012-10-17 Thread Dwight Hutto
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:30 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > Rita 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 sys

Deployment tools using Python (was: unittest for system testing)

2012-10-17 Thread Ben Finney
Rita 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 suit

Re: unittest for system testing

2012-10-17 Thread Rita
thanks. I suppose I would need a simple example from one of these libraries. ( i typed too soon for , "no code needed" ) On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 8:49 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 18/10/2012 01:22, Rita wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Currently, I use a shell script to test how my system behaves before

Re: unittest for system testing

2012-10-17 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 18/10/2012 01:22, Rita wrote: Hi, 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. This works great BUT I would like to use python and in part

unittest for system testing

2012-10-17 Thread Rita
Hi, 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. This works great BUT I would like to use python and in particular unittest module to test my s