Django 1.1 Testing and Debugging Book Review
June 16, 2010 | django, review | Only one comment so far.
I just finished reading the copy of Django 1.1 Testing and Debugging by Karen M. Tracey provided to us for review by Packt Publishing. For those of you who don’t know, Karen is a core developer of Django and her knowledge and experience in the framework shines through in this book.
This is a great book for people who want to transition from being a hobbyist tinkering on Django sites to professional developers. It will be a lot to digest for a newcomer to Django and might not contain much new information if you’ve been working with Django for a while (and writing tests for your code). The book covers:
- doctests vs. unit tests
- integrating external tools like Nose, Coverage, and Twill
- debugging with logging, Django Debug Toolbar, and pdb
- how to get help from the Django community and file bugs
- troubleshooting Apache/mod_wsgi deployments
Even though ...
