Reviews for Python Testing: Beginner's Guide

1. On the whole, pretty good

   Rated 3 out of 5 stars, February 12th, 2010

   A book dedicated to Python testing is welcome and on the whole I liked the book. It doesn't take long to work through and is pretty comprehensive. I didn't even find any errors, which makes a change. My niggles are that the chapter on Mock objects just isn't clear enough and since Mocks are then used in other chapters that is a shame. The other gripe is about the examples used. Why an AVL tree and worse the main example used in the book is a planning/scheduling app and is too confusing - why not a simple example to get the ideas across. At one point you have to try and follow along when the code is talking combinations of distinct, overlaps, includes, excludes and it is far too confusing. You want to spend time learning testing not trying to follow a confusing example.
   But it is still worth looking at and I think would be useful as a reference too.