Testing in Python at OTS

[Kristian Rother]

Hi,

we are two coaches who are interested in preparing a tutorial on automated testing in Python. What topics do you think would be interesting for you or participants who already participated in an OTS tutorial on Python?

Cheers,
     Kristian & Magdalena Rother

[Haiko Schol]

Hi Kristian & Magdalena,

Great to hear that you want to create a tutorial on testing in Python!

Currently there are three Python workshops being held every now and then:

1. Intro to programming
2. Flask
3. Django

The others have not happened in a long time, as far as I know.

So, if you want to create material that involves any of those topics,
I think it would be either 2. or 3. Then we would target the testing
workshop at learners with basic knowledge of Flask/Django.
If you want to create a tutorial that is accessible to more learners,
you probably need to come up with an engaging topic yourself (i.e.
maybe something more relatable than "let's build a calculator"). Intro
to programming uses the turtle module and I'm not sure how one would
write useful tests for that (However if you do, awesome! ;). Another
thing to keep in mind is that this workshop does not cover OOP. So,
ideally your beginner friendly workshop would use nose or something
similar, where inheriting from a test case base class is not required.
(OTOH, it's always good to use stdlib stuff...)

So in summary; tricky. ;)

Hopefully in addition to creating more confusion, I gave you some
ideas to think about.

Tomorrow is the continuous Python learners meetup. We will ask
participants what they would be interested wrt testing and get back to
you with the results.

Cheers,
Haiko

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