Python Atlanta May Meetup

Testing and Test Coverage with Nose — Alfredo Deza introduces us to the popular "nose" test harness for Python, describing how it has helped a recent project and how its coverage tools helped him get insight into how well his tests were actually exercising his code.

Choosing a Testing Framework — Brandon Rhodes draws on the research he did for his recent IBM Developerworks series of articles to explain why there are several Python testing frameworks on the market today, and how to choose which one fits you best.

Web Testing — Someone (maybe Brandon if no one else volunteers) shows what it looks like to download and run Selenium, and how web testing assures the behavior of your application where it's most important: out in front where the user can see it.

Mercurial with Google Code — Alfredo Deza returns to the stage for an interesting lightning talk about Mercurial, the ascendant version control system in Python land, and how it is already secretly supported by Google Code if you know to pull the right strings.

Details:

After an optional 6pm dinner at Figo Pasta at the corner of Howell Mill Road and Huff Road, we will meet as usual in the spacious and comfortable auditorium of the GTRI Food Processing Building at 7:30pm for our monthly meeting. Expect discussion, problem solving, and talks that introduce aspects of Python both basic (for newcomers) and arcane (to keep the experts awake). The meeting will kick off with ten minutes of notes and news in the regular "Nuts and Bolts" talk by Brandon Rhodes, then proceed on to our main presentations.