A wiki page on Python testing tools http://pycheesecake.org/wiki/PythonTestingToolsTaxonomy identifies a number of additional unit testing tools. The wiki page provides a handy summary. I'll examine these in light of the Beck Unit Test design patterns to provide a little more detail on what they really do …

The object-oriented unit testing framework began as Smalltalk's Beck Test framework http://www.xprogramming.com/testfram.htm. It evolved to the JUnit http://www.junit.org/index.htm>`_ ` <http://www.junit.org/index.htm%22%20target=%22NewWindow framework for Java. Beck defined four repeated patterns of unit testing software …

The object-oriented unit testing framework began as Smalltalk's Beck Test framework http://www.xprogramming.com/testfram.htm%22%20target=%22NewWindow. It evolved to the JUnit http://www.junit.org/index.htm%22%20target=%22NewWindow framework for Java. Beck defined four repeated patterns of unit testing software, covered in a previous …

Ned Batchelder : Blog [http://www.nedbatchelder.com/blog/index.html ] identifies no less than 6 unit testing frameworks for Python [http://www.nedbatchelder.com/blog/200510.html#e20051025T070731 ] and [http://www.nedbatchelder.com/blog/200411.html#e20041120T185622 ].

TestGears [http://www.turbogears.com/testgears/ ] is part of the TurboGears web uber-framework …

So, confronted with 1.4M records of questionable data, what do we do?

1. We'll need a production program that can run daily from now until the end of time to cleanse the data and reject the truly evil records.
2. We don't have a good fix on what the data is …