Writing unittests

What I am doing

I am beginning to get an idea of what unittests are. They try to test a particular small portion of your code and ensure that it will behave normally in all test cases.

For example I was writing unittests for a function - set_video_port(video_port) Mithro pointed out that if I give an argument like -1, my code will not work correctly. So this type of error where the port numbers are not in range should induce a ValueError. Similary, putting a string as an argument will should also raise an exception - TypeError.

I am making a class for each function, and the functions in the class are corresponding tests The format is like:

I run these tests by simply issuing a command like

The commits made are

• Added unittest for BaseServer.get_record_file: b5e4a4002c33d9f9a2c97184e6d9eacbeaad06a3
• Added unittest for BaseServer.get_control_port: f4ce165cb8f5d6b54c1ae3836025f1e0600ade6d
• Added unittest for BaseServer.get_audio_port: c8f2ccdf9675dd4ce3b146e35feda6289cce307a
• Added unittest for BaseServer.get_video_port: 933598967c845f394d2744322b1063b583bb53a9
• Added unittest for BaseServer.set_record_file: a403b96a3baaab320578530b2ebfc502cf1973b3
• Added unittest for BaseServer.set_control_port: ab2743e221b45c980a75a9e9464f6ea61f6748a0
• Added unittest for BaseServer.set_control_port: b4584d1c9214a555af052b7542adfa707acc9a1b
• Added unittest for BaseServer.set_audio_port: 761fd99c5519da82c79ee5e31f77cf07769a0b65
• Added unittest for BaseServer.set_video_port: 6963aa5bbbddbe8d25e776ca4727a509132485e5

What I am planning to do

I will be continuing with writing unittests for each function of the code :)

An off-topic thing. Getting all commits I had made in the last days on the blog page was such a headache. I have made this small little script for getting these commits and generating html code out of it https://github.com/hyades/hyades.github.com/blob/master/commits.py