a test suite for ice cream (1/?)

Friday, April 4th, 2008 Posted in programming | 1 Comment »

So, most days, I think I am pretty good at my job, which is [nominally] to write automated functional tests for web applications using twill and nose (and sometimes selenium RC, when I have exhausted all other possible options). That's ...

gimme that returned thing.

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 Posted in programming | 5 Comments »

Wow, I am kind of an idiot sometimes. In my defense, I have been programming for maybe a year and have zero formal training. I'm pretty lucky to work with the people I work with, though, and I think my ...

late pycon wrapup

Thursday, March 27th, 2008 Posted in programming | No Comments »

I meant to do this a little closer to the event itself, but first I decided I needed to have a site that wasn't entirely embarrassing. I thought about trying to build myself something, but I eventually threw in the ...

twill + rails

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 Posted in programming | No Comments »

My company has an increasingly large stable of web applications. The biggest one is written in PHP (currently being rewritten in python), but in the last year or so we've come to rely more heavily on frameworks, mostly Django and ...

generators != lists (?)

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 Posted in programming | 4 Comments »

My never-ending quest to write automated tests for web applications mostly involves twill tests, run with nose. Because I am muddling through this more or less on my own, I rely very heavily on documentation and examples, most of which ...