Writing Robust Code and Unit Testing

Does the code developed by you work the way it should do? Can you (or others) verify these assertions for themselves? And perhaps most importantly, to what extent are you confident of the accuracy of results that appear in publications? This session will teach you techniques of developing robust code and good unit tests to improve the predictability of a change, make development more productive and produce code that works as expected and produces desired results.

Prerequisites

This lesson assumes that you already understand basic programming concepts and are familiar with the basic elements of Python.

Topics

• Introduction
• Defensive Programming
• Unit Testing
• Test-Driven Development
• Limits to Testing
• Handling Errors

Other Resources

• Motivation
• code/ - Python code for the material.