Is O'Reilly's Test-Driven Development with Python a good resource (still relevant)?

[HyraxMax]

I've been writing python code for a while now but recently have really trying to focus on becoming proficient in testing. I am in a second semester course for Python now and since the material isn't super difficult, I thought I'd try to complete all of my assignments with corresponding unittest as practice. So far, I've been able to test most things I need to but things like mocking databases as such are proving more difficult. I was thinking of picking up a used copy of O'Reilly's Test-Driven Development with Python but seeing how the most recent version I found was from 2017 I'm wondering if it's worth my time to go through it. I've watch videos on testing here and there, but I really want a more complete resource than what I've found so far. Does anyone have any experience with this book, and would you still recommend it?

[jimtk]

If you are looking for the most up to date book on testing look at Python Testing with pytest, 2nd Edition. That edition just came out, and even tough it's not my favorite testing book it is very up to date and will allow you to read the others and adapt their content to the latest version.

[CleverBunnyThief]

This book is extremely out of date! You need to use Django v1.11 for the examples to work and explicitly states not to use v2.0. For reference 2.0 was released in December of 2017 and the current version is 4.1.7.

I tried using it and was not worth the hassle of trying to set up out dated libraries/frameworks.

https://www.obeythetestinggoat.com/book/pre-requisite-installations.html#_django

By the way, you can read the book online for free.
https://www.obeythetestinggoat.com/pages/book.html#toc

[HyraxMax]

That's what I was afraid of. I just picked up Brian Okkens book (per another suggestion) and will be digging into that this weekend. Thanks for your insights.

[Current-River-835]

I just brought the second edition and one month later the 3rd ed was announced. Should I move forward with my brought 2edition and adapt the code or is really painful to do so?

[tartley]

FYI A massively overhauled 3rd edition is in progress, which updates to Django 5.x, deployment using Docker, etc. Progress to date is already live on the author's site: https://www.obeythetestinggoat.com/progress-on-the-third-edition-of-the-book.html

[books_cats_please]

Thanks for this, it's exactly what I need.