Re: [silicon-valley-python] January Meeting | Brainstorming Talks

[robert b <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

Hear a talk about it -- I know very little about this.

I am particularly interested in using Python to unit test components written in other programming languages (e.g., C++ or C or even Perl).  Also, just plain ol' black box testing (which is a simpler concept, I imagine).

--- On Thu, 12/8/11, Glen Jarvis <http://www.glenjarvis.com/~glen> wrote:

From: Glen Jarvis <http://www.glenjarvis.com/~glen>
Subject: Re: [silicon-valley-python] January Meeting | Brainstorming Talks
To: "robert b" <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robertyahoo.com>
Date: Thursday, December 8, 2011, 11:34 AM

Robert,   That's a great idea. PyUnit and nose are great tools for doing so. There's also the idea of demonstrating true TDD. Also, it's more difficult to do BDD in Python, but there are some packages (like lettuce/cucumber) that are bleeding on that edge (cucumber works very well in Ruby). 

    Are you proposing to give a talk on this. Or, would you prefer to hear a talk on this?
Cheers,

Glen


On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 8:04 AM, robert b <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert> wrote:

I would be interested using Python for unit testing and black box testing.


--- On Wed, 12/7/11, Glen Jarvis <http://www.glenjarvis.com/~glen> wrote:



From: Glen Jarvis <glen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Subject: [silicon-valley-python] January Meeting | Brainstorming Talks

To: http://www.meetup.com/~silicon-valley-python-announce

Date: Wednesday, December 7, 2011, 12:33 PM



I have been contacted by an awesome company that wants to offer us space for our MeetUps. I am working on organizing a January MeetUp. Do you have a talk that you'd like to share? Is there something of interest lately that you have seen and would like to see a talk on it? Let's brainstorm for ideas and plan 2012.I am personally working on an Open Source project that marries Django and Mechanical Turk. It's still in an alpha stage, but I learned a lot during the process and could share what I learned. I am also doing a lot of work with Amazon Web Services and could give a basic talk on AWS. Both of these talks are from the entry level to intermediate level (i.e., they will be pitched in a way that may bore the more advanced audience).Those are just a few ideas that I have. What about you? This is a discussion on the message board here.During Brainstorming, there are no bad ideas.. it's about creativity and making a pool of ideas. We will come back and


 edit/prioritize later. Now, let the ideas roll...Cheers,



Glen