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By the end of this session, you should be able to [http://www.obeythetestinggoat.com/ "Obey the Testing Goat"] from the start to finish for your next project.
 
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[http://twoscoopspress.org/collections/everything "Two Scoops of Django"] was mentioned by Birkin and another gentleman (thanks!) as being a great source for best practices with Django. There is a lot of decision making in regards to project layout and such in Django, and this is a really good guide for this aspect of development in Django.
 
[http://twill.idyll.org/ "twill - simple http scripting"] - twill is a great, easy and quick tool for testing basic http responses from your server. We use it to do continue integration testing from a cron job. Really handy...
 
[https://travis-ci.org/ "Travis CI"] - continuous integration server as a service. A lot easier than setting up a jenkins server, and free for public github repos. Also, fun to watch!!!
 
[http://nedbatchelder.com/code/coverage/ "coverage.py"] - code coverage tool, see if your tests hit all of your code lines.
 
[http://www.virtualenv.org/en/latest/ "virtualenv -- use it!]
 
[http://www.obeythetestinggoat.com/fast-tests-useless-hot-lava-be-damned.html "great blog post on over mocking and the need for functional acceptance tests"]
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