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Testing Research Software
Slides for the talk Writing tests for research software for PyCon Namibia 2017
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Transcript
Writing tests for research software @NikoletaGlyn
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TESTING
0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34
...
F0 = 0 F1 = 1 Fn = Fn−1 +
Fn−2
main.py def fib(n): if n == 0: return 0 if
n == 1: return 1 return 2 * fib(n - 1)
n 2 3 4 . . . 16 17 18
Fn 1 2 3 . . . 987 1597 2584 Fn−1 1 1 2 . . . 610 987 1597 Fn Fn−1 1.000 2.000 1.500 . . . 1.618 1.618 1.618
n 2 3 4 . . . 16 17 18
Fn 1 2 3 . . . 987 1597 2584 Fn−1 1 1 2 . . . 610 987 1597 Fn Fn−1 1.000 2.000 1.500 . . . 1.618 1.618 1.618 φ 1.61803...
. |-- main.py |-- golden.py
golden.py import main for n in range(10, 100000): golden_ratio =
fib(n) / fib(n - 1) print(golden_ratio)
golden.py import main for n in range(10, 100000): golden_ratio =
fib(n) / fib(n - 1) print(golden_ratio) 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 ...
golden.py import main for n in range(10, 100000): golden_ratio =
fib(n) / fib(n - 1) print(golden_ratio) 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 ... Glynatsi 2017, “SOLVES THE FIBONACCI MYSTERY”
WRITE REVIEW PUBLISH
20% OF GENETIC RESEARCH IS WRONG Gene name errors are
widespread in the scientific literature by Mark Ziemann, Yotam Eren and Assam El-Osta
INDUSTRY
INDUSTRY AMAZON
. |-- main.py |-- golden.py |-- test_main.py
test main.py import unittest import main class TestExample(unittest.TestCase): def test_initial(self):
self.assertEqual(fib(0), 0) self.assertEqual(fib(1), 1) def test_fib(self): self.assertEqual(fib(2), 1) self.assertEqual(fib(3), 2)
test main.py import unittest import main class TestExample(unittest.TestCase): def test_initial(self):
self.assertEqual(fib(0), 0) self.assertEqual(fib(1), 1) def test_fib(self): self.assertEqual(fib(2), 1) self.assertEqual(fib(3), 2) python -m unittest test_main.py
test main.py import unittest import main class TestExample(unittest.TestCase): def test_initial(self):
self.assertEqual(fib(0), 0) self.assertEqual(fib(1), 1) def test_fib(self): self.assertEqual(fib(2), 1) self.assertEqual(fib(3), 2) python -m unittest test_main.py self.assertEqual(fib(2), 1) AssertionError: 2 != 1 ----------------------------- Ran 2 tests in 0.000s FAILED (failures=1)
main.py def fib(n): if n == 0: return 0 if
n == 1: return 1 return 2 * fib(n - 1)
main.py def fib(n): if n == 0: return 0 if
n == 1: return 1 return fib(n - 1) + fib(n - 2)
main.py def fib(n): if n == 0: return 0 if
n == 1: return 1 return fib(n - 1) + fib(n - 2) python -m unittest test_main.py ------------------------------- Ran 2 tests in 0.000s OK
main.py def fib(n): if n == 0: return 0 if
n == 1: return 1 return fib(n - 1) + fib(n - 2) python -m unittest test_main.py ------------------------------- Ran 2 tests in 0.000s OK Glynatsi 2017, “TRYING TO RECLAIM REPUTATION”
Doc Testing
main.py import unittest def fib(n): """Returns the n th fibonacci
number. For example: >>> fib(5) 5 >>> fib(6) 8 >>> fib(5) + fib(6) 13 >>> fib(7) 10 """ if n == 0: return 0 elif n == 1: return 1 else: return fib(n - 1) + fib(n - 2)
python -m doctest main.py Failed example: fib(7) Expected: 10 Got:
13 **************************** 1 items had failures: 1 of 4 in main.fib ***Test Failed*** 1 failures.
main.py import unittest def fib(n): """Returns the n th fibonacci
number. For example: >>> fib(5) 5 >>> fib(6) 8 >>> fib(5) + fib(6) 13 >>> fib(7) 13 """ if n == 0: return 0 elif n == 1: return 1 else: return fib(n - 1) + fib(n - 2)
Property Based Testing
from hypothesis import given from hypothesis.strategies import integers class TestFib(unittest.TestCase):
@given(k=integers(min_value=2)) def test_fib(self, k): self.assertTrue(fib(k), fib(k - 1) + fib(k - 2)) https://github.com/HypothesisWorks @DRMacIver
It’s impossible to conduct research without software, say 7 out
of 10 UK researchers Simon Hettrick uk/blog/2016-09-12-its-impossible-conduct-research-without-out-10-uk- researchers
USE 92%
IMPOSSIBLE 69%
DEVELOP 56%
TRAINING 79%
USE 92% IMPOSSIBLE 69% DEVELOP 56% TRAINING 79%
Axelrod : https://github.com/Axelrod-Python/Axelrod Arcas: https://github.com/Nikoleta-v3/Arcas Ciw: https://github.com/CiwPython/Ciw Pandas: https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas Skleanr:
http://scikit-learn.org/stable/ Numpy: https://github.com/numpy/numpy cryptography: https://github.com/pyca/cryptography fastnumbers: https://github.com/SethMMorton/fastnumbers yacluster: https://github.com/KrzysiekJ/yacluster binaryornot: https://github.com/audreyr/binaryornot . . .
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@NikoletaGlyn https://github.com/Nikoleta-v3 @SoftwateSaved @PhoenixCUni