Just wrapping up a fantastic few days at PyCon Chicago 2009. I went with a group of about 10 guys from AGI, and we managed to have a little bit of fun in between some great mind-enriching talks.
Here are some notes I jotted down while at the conference. It’s a bit overwhelming, but [...]
We generally preach that you should not use real data in your unit tests. You should instead mock said data out in an effort to lesson potential side-effects, including degrading test performance and adversely affecting live data.
Sometimes, you’d like to test actual file handling in a unit test. If you do, you should [...]
Here’s a quick example of how to incorporate the Decorator Pattern into your javascript code using the Dojo framework. Rather than decorating an entire class, this example merely decorates a single function, extending the original function with some extra logic.
// Instantiate widget class
var w = new core.widget.MyWidget();
// Decorate the original "method1" function
var _old_method1 = [...]
