Test-Driven Development with Python (2^nd Ed.) Obey the Testing Goat: Using Django, Selenium, and JavaScript

By taking you through the development of a real web application from beginning to end, the updated second edition of this hands-on guide demonstrates the practical advantages of test-driven development (TDD) with Python. You’ll learn how to write and run tests before building each part of your app, and then develop the minimum amount of code required to pass those tests. The result? Clean code that works.

Author Harry J.W. Percival uses a concrete example—the development of a web site, from scratch—to teach TDD methodology and how it applies to web programming, from the basics of database integration and Javascript to more advanced topics such as mocking, Ajax, and REST APIs. It's ideal for relative newcomers and self-taught web developers looking to take their skills to the next level with a more structured approach.

- Chapter 1 - Getting
- Chapter 2 - Extending the Functional Test Using the Unittest Module
- Chapter 3 - Testing a Simple Home Page with Unit Tests
- Chapter 4 - What Are We Doing with All These Tests
- Chapter 5 - Saving User Input: Testing the Database
- Chapter 6 - Improving Functional Tests: Ensuring Isolation and Removing Voodoo Sleeps
- Chapter 7 - Working Incrementally
- Chapter 8 - Prettication: Layout and Styling, and What to Test About It
- Chapter 9 - Testing Deployment Using a Staging Site
- Chapter 10 - Getting to a Production-Ready Deployment
- Chapter 11 - Automating Deployment with Fabric
- Chapter 12 - Splitting our tests into multiple €les, and a generic wait helper
- Chapter 13 - Validation at the Database Layer
- Chapter 14 - A Simple Form
- Chapter 15 - More Advanced Forms
- Chapter 16 - Dipping Our Toes, Very Tentatively, into JavaScript
- Chapter 17 - Deploying Our New Code
- Chapter 18 - User Authentication, Spiking and De-Spiking-In TDD
- Chapter 19 - Using Mocks to Test External Dependencies or Reduce Duplication
- Chapter 20 - Test Fixtures and a Decorator for Explicit Waits
- Chapter 21 - Server-Side Debugging
- Chapter 22 - Finishing “My Lists”: Outside-In TDD
- Chapter 23 - Test Isolation, and “Listening to Your Tests"
- Chapter 24 - Continuous Integration (CI)
- Chapter 25 - The Token Social Bit, the Page Pattern, and an Exercise for the Reader
- Chapter 26 - Fast Tests, Slow Tests, and Hot Lava
- Appendix A - Python Anywhere
- Appendix B - Django Class-Based Views
- Appendix C - Provisioning with Ansible
- Appendix D - Testing Database Migrations
- Appendix E - Behavior Driven Development
- Appendix F - Building a REST API: JSON, Ajax, and Mocking with JavaScript
- Appendix G - Django-Rest-Framework
- Appendix H - Cheat Sheet
- Appendix I - What to Do Next