Bhaskar N. Das - Python Testing Cookbook.

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About the authors

Greg L. Turnquist has worked in the software industry since 1997. He is an active participant in the open source community and has contributed patches to several projects, including MythTV, Spring Security, MediaWiki, and the TestNG Eclipse plugin. As a test-obsessed script junky, he has always sought the right tool for the job. He is a firm believer in agile practices and automated testing. He has developed distributed systems and LAMP-based setups, and he has supported mission-critical systems hosted on various platforms.
After graduating from Auburn University with a master's in computer engineering, Greg started working with the Harris Corporation. He worked on many contracts utilizing many types of technology. In 2006, he created the Spring Python project and went on to write Spring Python 1.1 in 2010. He joined SpringSource, a division of VMware in 2010, as part of its international software development team.

Bhaskar N. Das has 8 years' experience in various projects involving application development, maintenance, and support with IBM. He has worked in various technologies and domains including Java, Python, application servers, the cloud, and various database technologies. His domain expertise includes finance and asset management (IT and finance assets). His areas of interest include big data, business finance optimization and scaling, data science, and Machine Learning.

About the reviewers

Maurice HT Ling is a Research Assistant Professor at the Perdana University School of Data Sciences. He obtained his BSc.(Hons.) in Molecular and Cell Biology from The University of Melbourne, Australia, in 2004, and his BSc. in Computing from the University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom, in 2007, before obtaining his Ph.D. in Bioinformatics from The University of Melbourne, Australia, in 2009. He is a bioinformatician who is currently working on looking at evolutionary biology and various aspects of life. His main techniques involve experimental evolution and simulations, such as artificial life simulation, for accessing evolutionary perspectives, and using existing published data. He has developed computational algorithms as part of this research. He has a wide range of other interests, including professional and social aspects of science and education, and studies this area using autoethnographical and autobiographical methods. He co-founded Python User Group (Singapore), and has been instrumental in inaugurating PyCon Asia-Pacific as one of the 3 major Python conferences worldwide, together with PyCon US and EuroPython. On the commercial side, he is the principal partner of Colossus Technologies LLP, Singapore. In his free time, he likes to read, enjoy a cup of coffee, writing his personal journal, or philosophizing on various aspects of life.

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Preface

Testing has always been part of software development. For decades, comprehensive testing was defined by complex manual test procedures backed by big budgets; but something revolutionary happened in 1998. In his Guide to Better Smalltalk, Smalltalk guru, Kent Beck, introduced an automated test framework called SUnit. This triggered an avalanche of test frameworks, including JUnit, PyUnit, and many others for different languages and various platforms, dubbed the xUnit movement. Automated testing was made a cornerstone of the agile movement when the top 17 software experts signed the Agile Manifesto in 2001.