On 24/04/15 20:09, boB Stepp wrote:
I have just started reading "Test-Driven Development by Example" by Kent Beck during my lunch breaks at work.
The TDD bit is another whole topic that I'll probably jump into later. For now...
allowed to install anything else, strange as this may sound! Since the only functional editors in these bare-bones Solaris 10 environments are some simplistic default editor that I do not know the name of and vi,
vi is a great editor, no major problems there, except it doesn't have Python syntax awareness/coloring etc. . However from memory doesn't Solaris 10 come with a CDE GUI? If so it should have a graphical editor in there someplace too. It was a reasonable coding editor in that it did block indenting, bracket matching, etc. And of course it has the original SCCS for source control. Which if there's only a few of you is adequate, and easy to work with. I used SCCS on several major projects over a 10 year period.
And if successful automated testing can be done with this CSA situation, how difficult is it to backtrack and add test suites to stuff already written and being used?
That's the traditional way of doing testing! Its not that hard if you can figure out a test environment. but from what I recall this CSA is a GUI? That makes injecting messages/commands much harder. There are tools that can do it but you can't install them... In your case building a usable test environment may be the barrier, building the test is an evolutionary process that shouldn't be too hard. If you have a CLI interface then file redirection makes it relatively easy! If you can interact with its database then stored procedures might provide away in. -- Alan G Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ http://www.amazon.com/author/alan_gauld Follow my photo-blog on Flickr at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alangauldphotos _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
