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Test Driven Python Development

You're reading from   Test Driven Python Development Develop high-quality and maintainable Python applications using the principles of test-driven development

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783987924
Length 264 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Siddharta Govindaraj Siddharta Govindaraj
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Test-Driven Python Development
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Getting Started with Test-Driven Development FREE CHAPTER 2. Red-Green-Refactor – The TDD Cycle 3. Code Smells and Refactoring 4. Using Mock Objects to Test Interactions 5. Working with Legacy Code 6. Maintaining Your Test Suite 7. Executable Documentation with doctest 8. Extending unittest with nose2 9. Unit Testing Patterns 10. Tools to Improve Test-Driven Development Answers to Exercises Working with Older Python Versions Index

Exercise


It is now time to put our newly-learned skills into practice. Here is a new requirement to build into the Stock class:

  • Sometimes, updates might come out of order and we might get an update for a newer timestamp, followed by an update for an older timestamp. This could be due to random network latency, or due to the fact that sometimes we might get updates from different sources and one might be slightly ahead of the other.

  • The Stock class should be able to handle such cases, and the price attribute should return the latest price as per the timestamp.

  • The is_increasing_trend should also process the latest three prices as per their timestamps.

Try your hand at implementing this requirement. Do not make any changes to the existing interfaces for these methods, but feel free to make any changes to the implementation as you require. Here are some things to think about:

  • Does our existing design support this new feature? Do we need to make any changes to the current design?

  • What kind of tests...

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