Simon Willison’s Weblog

nose 0.10.0 final! Nose is my favourite Python testing tool: it can auto-discover and execute tests in a directory hierarchy, which makes it easy to run just a sub-set of your test suite.

# 11th October 2007, 1:52 pm / nose, python, testing, unittesting

YUI 2.3.0. New components are a rich text editor, dojo-style package loader, lazy ImageLoader, colour picker and unit test framework. Easier skinning as well.

# 1st August 2007, 8:20 am / dojo, javascript, skinning, testing, yui

Test stubbing httplib2. Nice demonstration of monkey-patching as part of unit testing in Python.

# 10th May 2007, 11:24 pm / httplib2, joe-gregorio, monkeypatching, python, testing

The joy of pdb.set_trace(). I use nosetests --pdb-failures as my main entrypoint for Python debugging—it starts the debugger at the first failing test.

# 25th April 2007, 11:37 pm / debugging, nose, pdb, python, testing

Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image (via) Microsoft have made free VPC images of IE 6 and IE 7 available for testing, but they expire in August.

# 20th April 2007, 4:47 pm / ie7, internet-explorer, microsoft, testing, virtualization