Adam Lowry's Robotic Archive

Last night I gave a talk on automated testing for Python projects at the Portland Python Users Group. Here are the slides:

• Testing My Patience [keynote, 5.8M]
• Testing My Patience [PDF with notes, 4.3M]

Sorry for the large filesize; perhaps next time I won't feel the need to pad it out with unnecessary pictures.

A few notes:

• This is less a survey of all Python testing systems, and more of a survey of how I've done my testing over the years.
• I've used Buildbot for continuous integration, but I have been recommended Hudson (despite being in Java).
• When you're just getting started, make your tests as simple as possible, and refactor mercilessly. And mocking/stubbing libraries only when you need them, and try to limit their use until you feel very comfortable.

Thanks everyone for coming out!

Edit: Here it is on SlideShare:

Today and tomorrow I'm at iPhoneDevCamp (along with Scott and Steven), hacking with people on Urban Airship integration. I'm also doing a talk on Apple's Push Notification service (not about our product, but the general technical system). Slides from that talk are available, although it's possible they'll be edited after the talk.

Half of the developers at work had been using Mercurial for the past few months, and now that we've joined a different project I'm planning on moving the entire dev team away from Subversion. One dev was a little apprehensive after a brief stint fixing up a demo stored in Hg, so I put together a presentation as part of our lunch brown bag series (Thursday Tech Talks, because we like alliteration).

I'm not sure if the presentation will be useful to anyone else, as I tailored it to the devs here and had a stint at the whiteboard drawing revisions, but here are the slides anyways: Hg Is Not So Scary.