Chapter 6

1. Testing in software development is looking for inconsistencies and errors in our programs and code. There are several different testing methods with varying levels of abstraction:

• Unit testing: Looking at the individual unit components of a given program
• Integration testing: Looking at groups of unit components while they're working together
• System testing: Looking at the complete software as a whole

2. PyCharm offers convenient commands to generate test skeletons/boilerplate code that usually take time for developers to manually write.
3. Debugging is, in essence, narrowing down and identifying the causes for bugs and errors that have been detected during testing.

4. With a graphical interface combined with various options to track the values of variables throughout a program (inline debugging, watchers, evaluating expressions on the fly, and more), PyCharm allows...