What is Pythoscope? Pythoscope is a unit test generator for programs written in Python. It's open source, licensed under the MIT license. See the FAQ for commonly asked questions about Pythoscope. To get started with Pythoscope read the installation instructions and then dive into the tutorial. Current stable version of Pythoscope is 0.4.3, released on February 28th 2010.

Example

class OldPython(object):
    def __init__(self, age):
        self.age = age
 
    def hiss(self):
        return "sss... *cough* *cough*"

import unittest
 
class TestOldPython(unittest.TestCase):
    def test___init__(self):
        # old_python = OldPython(age)
        assert False # TODO: implement your test here
 
    def test_hiss(self):
        # old_python = OldPython(age)
        # self.assertEqual(expected, old_python.hiss())
        assert False # TODO: implement your test here
 
if __name__ == '__main__':
    unittest.main()

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Development

• How to contribute
• Making a release

Architecture

• Configuration
• Code Inspector
• Test Generator
• Internal Information Storage
• Shared State
• Points of Entry

Research Materials

• Initial Research
• Pythoscope proposal
• Hard-to-Test Code
• Side Effects
• Dynamic Tracing

Blueprints

Those are specifications which were wikified, for a full list see blueprints on Launchpad.

Events

• Sept 18 2008 - SoCal Python Interest Group Meeting demonstration.

Credits

Idea for this project came from Paul Hildebrandt and Titus Brown. Most of the code so far has been written by Michal Kwiatkowski.

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