Crafting Test-Driven Software with Python

Crafting Test-Driven Software with Python
Author: Alessandro Molina
Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2021-02-18
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1838643915

Get to grips with essential concepts and step-by-step explanations to apply TDD practices to your Python projects while keeping your test suite under control Key FeaturesBuild robust Python applications using TDD and BDD methodologiesTest Python web applications using WebTest and web frameworksLeverage PyTest to implement stringent testing mechanisms to ensure fault-tolerant applicationsBook Description Test-driven development (TDD) is a set of best practices that helps developers to build more scalable software and is used to increase the robustness of software by using automatic tests. This book shows you how to apply TDD practices effectively in Python projects. You’ll begin by learning about built-in unit tests and Mocks before covering rich frameworks like PyTest and web-based libraries such as WebTest and Robot Framework, discovering how Python allows you to embrace all modern testing practices with ease. Moving on, you’ll find out how to design tests and balance them with new feature development and learn how to create a complete test suite with PyTest. The book helps you adopt a hands-on approach to implementing TDD and associated methodologies that will have you up and running and make you more productive in no time. With the help of step-by-step explanations of essential concepts and practical examples, you’ll explore automatic tests and TDD best practices and get to grips with the methodologies and tools available in Python for creating effective and robust applications. By the end of this Python book, you will be able to write reliable test suites in Python to ensure the long-term resilience of your application using the range of libraries offered by Python for testing and development. What you will learnFind out how tests can make your life easier as a developer and discover related best practicesExplore PyTest, the most widespread testing framework for PythonGet to grips with the most common PyTest plugins, including coverage, flaky, xdist, and pickedWrite functional tests for WSGI web applications with WebTestRun end-to-end tests for web applications using Robot FrameworkUnderstand what test-driven development means and why it is importantDiscover how to use the range of tools available in PythonBuild reliable and robust applicationsWho this book is for This book is for Python developers looking to get started with test-driven development and developers who want to learn about the testing tools available in Python. Developers who want to create web applications with Python and plan to implement TDD methodology with PyTest will find this book useful. Basic knowledge of Python programming is required.

Animal Alphabet

Animal Alphabet
Author: Thea Feldman
Publisher: Disney Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-06-03
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781423110019

Join the Little Einsteins team on an alphabet safari! Leo, Annie, Quincy, June, and Rocket are off on a new adventure to discover all the animals of the alphabet, from Alligator to Zebra. This new lenticular novelty makes learning the alphabet fun, as preschoolers can tilt the book to see a letter of the alphabet morph into a beautiful full-color photo of an animal. Building on the success of the Baby Einstein’s 93% U.S. brand awareness, Little Einsteins maintains the unique educational philosophy of using classical music, art, and real-world imagery to engage and teach preschoolers about the natural world around them.

Pinocchio, the Tale of a Puppet

Pinocchio, the Tale of a Puppet
Author: Carlo Collodi
Publisher:
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2011-02
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781603033930

Pinocchio, The Tale of a Puppet follows the adventures of a talking wooden puppet whose nose grew longer whenever he told a lie and who wanted more than anything else to become a real boy.As carpenter Master Antonio begins to carve a block of pinewood into a leg for his table the log shouts out, "Don't strike me too hard!" Frightened by the talking log, Master Cherry does not know what to do until his neighbor Geppetto drops by looking for a piece of wood to build a marionette. Antonio gives the block to Geppetto. And thus begins the life of Pinocchio, the puppet that turns into a boy.Pinocchio, The Tale of a Puppet is a novel for children by Carlo Collodi is about the mischievous adventures of Pinocchio, an animated marionette, and his poor father and woodcarver Geppetto. It is considered a classic of children's literature and has spawned many derivative works of art. But this is not the story we've seen in film but the original version full of harrowing adventures faced by Pinnocchio. It includes 40 illustrations.

Minesweeper (Special Forces, Book 2)

Minesweeper (Special Forces, Book 2)
Author: Chris Lynch
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 133
Release: 2019-12-03
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0545861667

"All the sizzle, chaos, noise and scariness of war is clay in the hands of ace storyteller Lynch." -- Kirkus Reviews for the World War II series Discover the secret missions behind America's greatest conflicts.Fergus Frew thought he knew what to expect when he signed up with the Navy's demolitions team. But as the Korean War rages on, Fergus and his fellow divers -- AKA "frogmen" -- are tasked with more than just scouting mudflats. Soon they're planting mines. And sabotaging tunnels, bridges... and even fishing nets. Strangest of all, it falls to Fergus to transport a spy into the country -- and that means traveling far from Navy-controlled waters.But frogmen are amphibious. And Fergus may not realize it, but he's in a position to change the way the whole world thinks about combat.National Book Award finalist Chris Lynch continues his explosive fiction series based on the real-life, top-secret history of US black ops and today's heroic Navy SEALs.

Unconventional Warfare (Special Forces, Book 1)

Unconventional Warfare (Special Forces, Book 1)
Author: Chris Lynch
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 122
Release: 2018-11-27
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0545861632

"All the sizzle, chaos, noise and scariness of war is clay in the hands of ace storyteller Lynch." -- Kirkus Reviews for the World War II series Discover the secret missions behind America's greatest conflicts.Danny Manion has been fighting his entire life. Sometimes with his fists. Sometimes with his words. But when his actions finally land him in real trouble, he can't fight the judge who offers him a choice: jail... or the army.Turns out there's a perfect place for him in the US military: the Studies and Observation Group (SOG), an elite volunteer-only task force comprised of US Air Force Commandos, Army Green Berets, Navy SEALS, and even a CIA agent or two. With the SOG's focus on covert action and psychological warfare, Danny is guaranteed an unusual tour of duty, and a hugely dangerous one. Fortunately, the very same qualities that got him in trouble at home make him a natural-born commando in a secret war. Even if almost nobody knows he's there.National Book Award finalist Chris Lynch begins a new, explosive fiction series based on the real-life, top-secret history of US black ops.

The Incredible Shrinking Adventure

The Incredible Shrinking Adventure
Author: Disney Book Group
Publisher: Disney Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-09-30
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781423110088

The Little Einsteins team has found a Big and Small machine with the power to make anything grow or shrink. But there's a problem—the machine breaks and shrinks the Little Einsteins and Rocket! The team has a mission—they need to find a missing piece of the machine to make themselves grow big again. Young readers will have fun lifting the flaps to help the Little Einsteins on their quest.

Dante

Dante
Author: Alessandro Barbero
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2022-01-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781643139135

Dante brings the legendary author—and the medieval Italy of his era— to vivid life, describing the political intrigue, battles, culture, and society that shaped his writing. Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy has defined how people imagine and depict heaven and hell for over seven centuries. However, outside of Italy, his other works are not well known, and less still is generally known about the context he wrote them in. In Dante, Barbero brings the legendary author’s Italy to life, describing the political intrigue, battles, city and society that shaped his life and work. The son of a shylock who dreams of belonging to the world of writers and nobles, we follow Dante into the dark corridors of politics where ideals are shattered by rampant corruption, and then into exile as he travels Italy and discovers the extraordinary color and variety of the countryside, the metropolises, and the knightly courts. This is a book by a serious scholar with real popular appeal, as evidenced by its bestseller ranking in Italy. It is a remarkable piece of forensic investigation into medieval Italian life.

Disney's Little Einsteins: June's New Shoes

Disney's Little Einsteins: June's New Shoes
Author: Disney Book Group
Publisher: Disney Press
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2007-04-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781423102137

CATALOG COPY DESCRIPTION: In the Little Einsteins’ latest adventure, June gets a brand-new pair of ballet shoes. She can’t wait to try them out, but each time she attempts a leap or twirl, she falls. It’s up to the Little Einsteins team to help their friend to gain the confidence she needs to use her shoes to save the day! Building on the success of the Baby Einstein’s 93% U.S. brand awareness, Little Einsteins keeps with the unique educational philosophy of using classical music, art, and real-world imagery to engage and teach preschoolers about the natural world around them. Anchored by a U.S.Video/DVD premiere in August 2005 and followed by a much-anticipated TV series in October 2005, the Little Einsteins series is sure to be the next beloved brand on the preschool reading level.

The Creative Destruction of New York City

The Creative Destruction of New York City
Author: Alessandro Busà
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2017-08-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0190610107

Bill de Blasio's campaign rhetoric focused on a tale of two cities: rich and poor New York. He promised to value the needs of poor and working-class New Yorkers, making city government work better for everyone-not just those who thrived during Bloomberg's tenure as mayor. But well into de Blasio's administration, many critics think that little has changed in the lives of struggling New Yorkers, and that the gentrification of New York City is expanding at a record pace across the five boroughs. Despite the mayor's goal of creating more affordable housing, Brooklyn and Manhattan sit atop the list of the most unaffordable housing markets in the country. It seems that the old adage is becoming truer: New York is a place for only the very rich and the very poor. In The Creative Destruction of New York City, urban scholar Alessandro Busà travels to neighborhoods across the city, from Harlem to Coney Island, from Hell's Kitchen to East New York, to tell the story of fifteen years of drastic rezoning and rebranding, updating the tale of two New Yorks. There is a gilded city of sky-high glass towers where Wall Street managers and foreign billionaires live-or merely store their cash. And there is another New York: a place where even the professional middle class is one rent hike away from displacement. Despite de Blasio's rhetoric, the trajectory since Bloomberg has been remarkably consistent. New York's urban development is changing to meet the consumption demands of the very rich, and real estate moguls' power has never been greater. Major players in real estate, banking, and finance have worked to ensure that, regardless of changes in leadership, their interests are safeguarded at City Hall. The Creative Destruction of New York City is an important chronicle of both the success of the city's elite and of efforts to counter the city's march toward a glossy and exclusionary urban landscape. It is essential reading for everyone who cares about affordable housing access and, indeed, the soul of New York City.