Talk for PyTexas 2013 on concepts of coding defensively
There are a lot of approaches and philosophies to prevent bugs in software, but the truth is they are unavoidable in complex, modern systems. So, what's a developer to do? Code in a style that tries to alert and test for the bugs when they happen instead of feeling like a failure when you can't prevent the unavoidable.
Wikipedia defines this style of programming as 'defensive programming,' and the idea is code in a way that expects software to be misused and have bugs. This talk will explore this general concept and how to add bits of this style of development to you Python code with the following: - Asserts - Logging - Unit tests
The presentation requires landslide
to view. This can be installed via pip and the included requirements.txt
file (pip install -r requirements.txt).
You can view a live version of the presentation here.