Git bisect And Nose -- Or how to find out who to blame for breaking the build.

Posted on Fri 03 August 2012 in Posts • Tagged with git, nose, python, testing

How did I not ever discover git bisect before today? Git bisect allows you to identify a particular commit which breaks a build, even after development has continued past that commit. So for example, say you:

Commit some code which (unknowing to you) happens to break the build
You then …

Useful Python Tools

Posted on Fri 18 May 2012 in Posts • Tagged with pythonTipOfTheDay, python, nose, metrics, quality, testing

I often stumble across and use a number of useful tools for creating Python code. Thought I'd barf out a blog post documenting a few of them so that my future self will be able to find this info again if need be. :)

coverage.py

(http://nedbatchelder.com/code/coverage …