On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 11:59 -0400, Che M wrote: > Mac, I found this an excellent brief overview of UT and your points > all > seem very strong to me. Thanks very much. I admit I didn't really > know > anything about the topic and was mentioning my feelings on the matter > partly to elicit enlightening responses like this (maybe because I was > feeling > like I was being irresponsible with my own project by not learning UT > and running tests). > > I am in the "hobbyist programmer busy on a simple one-off small app" > camp ("simple" is relative...though it is clearly nothing like a big > e-commerce application!), so I feel OK with foregoing getting into UT > for now. If things get more complex and I at some point have actual > users > instead of the large number of vapor users I have now (:D) I may > buckle > down and learn it.
No worries than, I am happy my answer was of some use. Unit testing in python is however very very easy to use in a great number of situations, so don't be scared to get your hands dirty with it! A few days back I read this sentence: "Later than you expected, but sooner than you think" which in the context meant that we tend to over-estimate our abilities prior to start something new, but than - once we started working on it, we contrarily under-estimate our ability to achieve quickly a good level of performance... Happy learning! :) Mac. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor