The killer web app tutorial claims to be for people with no prior programming skills, is it strange to throw so much emphasis on testing in a course for people who have never programmed? I'm not sure if it is worth taking the time to get selenium working and learn how to use it, or if I should hold off on worrying about the testing side and keep looking for something better as far as learning materials go. Especially if a better testing method is being worked on.
I'd like to be able to build more complicated sites, I just don't know how to get there. I see larger sites like amazon, facebook, or netflix and I think it would be really fun to be able to make one myself. I don't actually plan on starting my own business or anything, I just find it interesting. On Thursday, April 11, 2013 8:13:28 AM UTC-4, Niphlod wrote: > > we're working on having a better recommended (and documented, and simple) > way to run tests. > > Until recently I didn't think about tests at all: this speeded up greatly > the productivity but on the long run a lot of time has been "wasted" on > worrying too much if, e.g., I can upgrade web2py (or for what matters, any > other component inside my deployment, such as the db, redis, jquery, > bootstrap, etc). > > This made me think that if what you're going to do needs to be (even > seldomly) updated, you'd better find time to write those tests. > If instead is something that you do just for you, and you know you're > never going to touch it again, then you can continue to avoid writing tests > alltogether. > > When the next jquery update will be out, I'll just slip it into my test > server, run all the tests and see if something breaks. > If I had no tests, I'd be forced to fire up all the features of my app by > hand, probably missing something crucial (and I'll loose a few night > sleeps) :P > > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
