Use “get” methods to help writing more testable code

Imagine you have the following code

If you were writing unit test against do_something(), you would need to do some complex mocking on User.objects.filter() to return some mock up data. But this can be easily prevented by refactoring into a separate get_users() method as below:

This way, you can just mock get_users() to… Read More »

Minimal Django script setup

Notes about python logging

Consider the following code

Executing above: It won’t log anything to console, because it default to level warning It won’t log anything to console, because no stream has been set

Executing above: Running basicConfig(…) default adds the stream to stderr (unless specified explicitly) to root logger It sets the root logger level to… Read More »

Good references for writing tests

http://blog.codepipes.com/testing/software-testing-antipatterns.htm The above article talks about some anti-patterns in tests, personally I agree most of them especially anti-pattern on “Treating TDD as a religion”.

Good Read: Being A Developer After 40

“In our industry, every technology generates what I call a “galaxy.” These galaxies feature stars but also black holes; meteoric changes that fade in the night, many planets, only a tiny fraction of which harbour some kind of life, and lots of cosmic dust and dark matter. Examples of galaxies are, for example, .NET, Cocoa, Node.js,… Read More »