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Clean Code in Python

You're reading from   Clean Code in Python Refactor your legacy code base

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788835831
Length 332 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mariano Anaya Mariano Anaya
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction, Code Formatting, and Tools FREE CHAPTER 2. Pythonic Code 3. General Traits of Good Code 4. The SOLID Principles 5. Using Decorators to Improve Our Code 6. Getting More Out of Our Objects with Descriptors 7. Using Generators 8. Unit Testing and Refactoring 9. Common Design Patterns 10. Clean Architecture 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

More about unit testing

With the concepts we have revisited so far, we know how to test our code, think about our design in terms of how it is going to be tested, and configure the tools in our project to run the automated tests that will give us some degree of confidence over the quality of the software we have written.

If our confidence in the code is determined by the unit tests written on it, how do we know that they are enough? How could we be sure that we have been through enough on the test scenarios and that we are not missing some tests? Who says that these tests are correct? Meaning, who tests the tests?

The first part of the question, about being thorough on the tests we wrote, is answered by going beyond in our testing efforts through property-based testing.

The second part of the question might have multiple answers from different points of view, but we are going...

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