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Summary

This chapter advocated the usage of TDD and provided more information on:

unittest pitfalls
Third-party tools: nose and py.test
How to build fakes and mocks
Documentation-driven development

Since we already know how to build, package, and test software, in the next two chapters we will focus on ways to find performance bottlenecks and optimize your programs.

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