C++ and CMake

CMake in VSCode =============================== VSCode is a free open source IDE with a lot of nice features. In addition one can chose from a variety of extensions. Looks like Cmake-tools kind of works, but the hotkeys and some settings are far from intuitive. In my previous attempt I ended up removing ``cmake tools`` plugin and moving forward with custom task.json and launch.json scripts. Here is a template I made back then....

March 26, 2020 · SergeM

Pytest cheatsheet

Pytest is a powerful tool for testing in python. Here are some notes about hands-on experience. Running tests in pytest with/without a specified mark Execute pytest -m "integration" if you want to run only tests that have “@pytest.mark.integration” annotation. Similarly you can run only tests that don’t are not marked. pytest -m "not your_mark" That command will test everything that is not marked as “your_mark”. How to verify exception message using pytest One can use context manager pytest....

January 2, 2018 · SergeM

Mocking in Python

Let’s consider how python standard unittest module suppose to use mocks. Assume we want to test a method that creates and uses objects of other classes: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 # content of module.py # classes that we want to mock class ClassName1: pass class ClassName2: pass # class that we want to test class ProductionClass: def foo(self, parameter1, parameter2): object1 = module....

March 6, 2017 · SergeM

Testing json responses in Flask REST apps with pytest

Testing is an essential part of software developmnet process. Unfortunately best prictives for python are established not as good as for example in Java world. Here I try to explain how to test Flask-based web applications. We want to test endpoints behaviour including status codes and parameters encoding. It means testing of handler functions for those endpoints is not enough. Tests for endpoints can be considered/used as high-level acceptance tests....

November 27, 2016 · SergeM