Python: web2py and Test-driven Development

Overview/Description
Target Audience
Prerequisites
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
Course Number
Expertise Level

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Overview/Description
The web2py framework lets you build scalable, secure, and portable web applications. Testing provides a way to mitigate bugs and errors before the release of Python applications. In this course, you will learn about the web2py framework and the testing frameworks included in Python and their use.

Target Audience
Beginner Python developers, and developers with experience in other languages looking to start programming in Python

Prerequisites
None

Expected Duration (hours)
2.3

Lesson Objectives

Python: web2py and Test-driven Development

Start the course

describe the key features of the web2py framework

explore the core concepts of web2py

demonstrate the use of Views in a web2py application

describe how to use the database abstraction layer in a web application

incorporate forms and form validation into a web2py application

send email with web2py

implement authentication and authorization in a web2py application

create and run some basic web2py services

provide an overview of testing in Python

describe the key features of the doctest module

embed a basic doctest in a docstring

use doctest directives and handle raised exceptions in a doctest test

provide an overview of unit testing in Python

install Python Mocker and use it in a unit test

use the unittest framework to run tests on Python code

create and use a unittest test fixture

use the subtest() context manager to distinguish unittest test iterations

use nose to run unit tests on Python application code

perform unit testing of a project with pytest

describe the key features of the Robot framework

perform web automation testing using Robot with the Selenium 2 test library

use unittest module to write and run tests on Python code

Course Number:
pg_pyth_a05_it_enus

Expertise Level
Intermediate