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The Python Workshop

You're reading from   The Python Workshop Learn to code in Python and kickstart your career in software development or data science

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839218859
Length 608 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Andrew Bird Andrew Bird
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Andrew Bird
Graham Lee Graham Lee
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Graham Lee
Corey Wade Corey Wade
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Corey Wade
Dr. Lau Cher Han Dr. Lau Cher Han
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Dr. Lau Cher Han
Olivier Pons Olivier Pons
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Mario Corchero Jiménez Mario Corchero Jiménez
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Mario Corchero Jiménez
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Vital Python – Math, Strings, Conditionals, and Loops 2. Python Structures FREE CHAPTER 3. Executing Python – Programs, Algorithms, and Functions 4. Extending Python, Files, Errors, and Graphs 5. Constructing Python – Classes and Methods 6. The Standard Library 7. Becoming Pythonic 8. Software Development 9. Practical Python – Advanced Topics 10. Data Analytics with pandas and NumPy 11. Machine Learning Appendix

Automated Testing

Even though you explored and learned how to debug applications when errors are reported, you would prefer not having to find errors in our applications. To increase the chances of having a bug-free code base, most developers rely on automated testing.

At the beginning of their careers, most developers will just manually test their code as they develop it. By just providing a set of inputs and verifying the output of the program, you can get a basic level of confidence that our code "works." But this quickly becomes tedious and does not scale as the code base grows and evolves. Automated testing allows you to record a series of steps and stimuli that you perform in our code and have a series of expected output recorded.

This is extremely efficient to reduce the number of bugs in our code base, because not only are we verifying the code, but we are also implementing it, and you keep a record of all those verifications for future modifications of the...

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