Testing functions you have written

18-minute lesson · module-testing-02

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Testing functions you have written

18-minute lesson · module-testing-02

  • Collect several asserts into a single test function.
  • Return a clear success signal when all checks pass.
  • Choose test cases that cover normal, boundary, and tricky inputs.
  • Run the function under test and its test function together.

Source attribution

Status: adapted

How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Interactive Edition source · Unit Testing / Testing Functions / Designing Testable Functions

Adaptation notes. Reading rewritten in our voice. The palindrome example is ours. The student writes BOTH the function under test and a run_tests() that asserts several cases and returns True; the hidden test calls run_tests() and also spot-checks the function directly.

License notes. Original chapter is GNU FDL 1.3 (Brad Miller, David Ranum, and the upstream Elkner/Downey/Meyers text). No verbatim text reproduced.