Adding a huge question for lab exercise 4.
--- a/tdd/lab-workbook.rst Tue Sep 07 15:16:40 2010 +0530
+++ b/tdd/lab-workbook.rst Tue Sep 07 16:49:56 2010 +0530
@@ -56,4 +56,88 @@
Lab - 4
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- 1.
+ 1. Consider the following use case: We are given a large list of
+ items called *data* where each item is a again a list with three
+ values: username, which is a string; status of the user which
+ can be one of the following three strings 'new', 'valid' or
+ 'invalid'; and the last login time which is a datetime Python
+ object. Write a function called **query** that takes a filter
+ dictionary as a parameter and returns the result of the items in
+ the *data* list. They keys of the dictionary can be 'user',
+ 'status' and 'logtime' and their corresponding values can be any
+ of the valid values for the corresponding key. Example filter
+ dictionary::
+
+ filter = {
+ 'user': 'john'
+ 'status': 'new'
+ }
+
+ Place your function in a file called query.py. Before writing the
+ actual function, follow the test driven development
+ approach. First write a stub, fail the tests and then write the
+ code and make sure the tests pass. Specifically use unittest
+ framework to test this function. Place your tests in a file
+ called test_query.py
+
+ A developer wrote a small utility function in a file named
+ user_utils.py which uses your **query** function which looks as
+ follows::
+
+ def login_util(user=None):
+ """Takes a user name and returns his last login time if the
+ user is a valid user, else return None. If the user is
+ 'host' it returns the last login time of all the users.
+ """
+
+ filter_dict = {
+ 'user': user
+ 'status': 'active'
+ }
+
+ if user == 'host':
+ filter_dict['status'] + ['new', 'invalid']
+
+ return query(filter_dict)
+
+ Unfortunately the developer did not provide us with the test
+ cases. We wrote the following test cases for you to only discover
+ that the function miserably fails.
+
+ The tests were placed in a file called test_user_utils.py and we
+ have used the unittest framework::
+
+ import query
+ import user_utils
+ import unittest
+
+ class TestUserUtils(unittest.TestCase):
+
+ def setUp(self):
+ """Boiler plate method to provide common data to all
+ the test methods.
+ """
+ self.test_names = ['Alex', 'Guido', 'Thomas', 'host',
+ 'Tom', 'James']
+ self.data_len = len(query.data)
+
+ def test_login_utils(self):
+ """Tests for the login_utils function.
+ """
+
+ for name in self.test_names:
+ if name == 'host':
+ assertEqual(len(user_utils.login_utils(name)), self.data_len)
+ else:
+ assertLess(len(user_utils.login_utils(name)), self.data_len)
+
+ def tearDown(self):
+ """Boiler plate method to clean up all the data created
+ for tests.
+ """
+
+ del self.test_names
+ del self.data_len
+
+ Fix the bug, run the tests to make sure the function passes the
+ tests and if possible refactor the code with a better approach.