[OLPC-Games] Testing Frameworks

[Kent Quirk]

It's always a good idea to build some test code for your modules.

There are people who argue that "test-driven development" (TDD) is 
actually cheaper than normal development processes, since you spend less 
time debugging. Done right, I think I probably agree. But it's probably 
not true for the first couple of times you do it.

Take a look into py.test instead of unittest -- it lets you write tests 
that don't change your code at all, which is nice in a platform like the 
OLPC where you don't want to affect your code.

    Kent


Julius Lucks wrote:
> I was more thinking that in the build process, some automated 
> procedure might pull down the latest code and then run the tests.  In 
> that case I was thinking that the testing should be done in a more 
> standard way (like with unittest).  I could be thinking too far ahead 
> though - I should probably just write the game!
>
> Julius
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>> I'm not sure why you would need to run the tests on the XO itself. I
>> would expect you would run the tests in your development environment
>> (whatever that is). Tests should probably not even be included in the
>> final version to save space.
>>
>> --Noah
>>
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