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Chapter 12
, 
Testing Object-oriented Programs
, opens with why testing is so important 
in Python applications. It emphasizes test-driven development and introduces two 
different testing suites: unittest and py.test. Finally, it discusses mocking test objects 
and code coverage.
Chapter 13
, 
Concurrency
, is a whirlwind tour of Python's support (and lack thereof) 
of concurrency patterns. It discusses threads, multiprocessing, futures, and the new 
AsyncIO library.
Each chapter includes relevant examples and a case study that collects the chapter's 
contents into a working (if not complete) program.
What you need for this book
All the examples in this book rely on the Python 3 interpreter. Make sure you are not 
using Python 2.7 or earlier. At the time of writing, Python 3.4 was the latest release 
of Python. Most examples will work on earlier revisions of Python 3, but you are 
encouraged to use the latest version to minimize frustration.
All of the examples should run on any operating system supported by Python.
If this is not the case, please report it as a bug.
Some of the examples need a working Internet connection. You'll probably want
to have one of these for extracurricular research and debugging anyway!
In addition, some of the examples in this book rely on third-party libraries that do 
not ship with Python. These are introduced within the book at the time they are 
used, so you do not need to install them in advance. However, for completeness, 
here is a list:
• 
pip
• 
requests
• 
pillow
• 
bitarray
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Preface
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