Samba has a lot of tests, and we like to run them often. In order to easily do that, we've got a script that checks out a bunch of repositories and runs all tests in them, in parallel and independent of each other. It's living in the source tree at …

Another day, another piece of testing mayhem. I've completed the 0.1 version of my Flask-Downloader helper class. With this, I could complete my web app. Now, the downloader itself has a bunch of tests to make sure it's working as expected, but I was also going to test the …

Today, I decided to go for the downloader component that can download files on the behalf of the users. While looking at how to test this, I actually noticed that the mm_unit functionality has been merged into the minimock package. Sweet. I wanted to keep this modular, a downloader sounds …

Today, I decided to go and restructure my webapp into a package as recommended by the Flask "Larger Applications" pattern. Thanks to my existing test suite, the move was quick and pain-free. I had to fix imports in one of the tests, but apart from that, the only thing I …

Looks like my system strikes back. A fitting thing to happen for an episode 2, I guess. Turns out that nosetests and virtualenv need some extra care and feeding when kept together. Installing another copy of nosetests into my virtualenv fixed the test failures I was seeing. Thanks to the …