Testing Python: Applying Unit Testing, TDD, BDD and Acceptance Testing

This is a long overdue book. Python has been steadily growing in popularity in multiple industry verticals over the past decade and the different sub-cultures have brought a variety of programming styles and methodologies to the language. As more and more Python code is powering today's production and mission-critical systems it becomes essential to ensure quality and reliability while maintaining efficient and agile development practices.

There has been a flurry of literature written in recent years about the overall benefits of agile methodologies and test-driven development. To a large extent, however, individual developers and teams have been left on their own to figure out how to put this philosophy to practice and extract maximum benefit from it in their trade.

David Sale's book alleviates this issue for Python developers by providing extremely pragmatic, timely and well-organized guidelines as well as many specific examples on how to approach the development and testing of complex systems in a way that amounts to building better software.This is not an academic work - it focuses exclusively on practical solutions to real-world industry problems.

Fairly short and to the point, the book mixes equal portions of justification and tutorial-style examples to work through.

The author has picked some of the best Python tools that are currently available for the various tasks at hand, but the reader will be well equipped to make their own choices once they understand the basic concepts.