Make test suite

[shaunagm]

Probably a good start is to just list the things we want to test. This could go in the readme for manual testing. At some point it would be nice to set up automated testing, too.

[shaunagm]

Here are some resources to consult:

• Software Carpentry's section on unit testing
• Nedbat's pycon2014 talk
• Dive Into Python's chapter on unit testing
• Python Test frameworks and strategies
• And also possibly: This random page I found on websearch, this python unit test tutorial or this testing guide.

Feel free to comment with advice about how testing works or how to design tests for this particular project!

[pdurbin]

Yesterday I asked @therealprologic if he'd be interested in writing a test for his Python IRC bot and he did!

His bot has a very similar "greeting" feature for when people join a channel and here is the test: https://bitbucket.org/prologic/kdb/src/4964e018ef81ea2d7f4431a45160174da7b16f76/tests/plugins/test_greeting.py

This is what the test looks like when it's running: http://codepad.org/SuxTUSSg

Here's our conversation about how to write tests for IRC bots: http://irclogs.shortcircuit.net.au/%23circuits/2014-05-11.log.html

(See also http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7546026/testing-an-irc-bot and http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/132263/testing-an-irc-bot )

I think we could learn a lot from his work in this area.

[shaunagm]

Done! Well, inasmuch as testing is ever done:

https://github.com/shaunagm/WelcomeBot/commit/3b545ee35f1928833b3ed82722668e64eac954f5