How do you test your code?

This mini-series is for people who don't have the time to delve into the way you'd write tests for your Python code, but would like to get a quick overview of the possibilities.

However, before we can get into actually testing things, it is worth to think about the following questions:

What kind of application do you test?

• Web application?
• Command line application?
• Desktop application?
• Batch jobs?
• ...

How complex is your environment?

• An applications can be a single executable that works locally on the command line.
• Another application might need 2 database and 10 other services to be running.

What is the goal of the tests?

• Help with development?
• Help verify that the product does what it is expected to do.