Professional IronPython

Security testing: If you don’t try to break down the walls you erected for your application, 
someone else will most certainly sign up for the job. Because IronPython tends to treat every-
thing as public, it actually makes a great tool for testing security. You’ll find no artificial walls 
to keep things neat and tidy. Security is never neat or tidy — it’s all about someone ripping 
away the veneer of the façade you called security when you put the application together. 
IronPython lets you test your application brutally, the same way someone else will.
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System characteristics: Even though you can’t write code to ensure that your application will 
run on every machine in the solar system, you can do things such as add random pauses in your 
code to mimic activity on an overloaded system. You can also execute your application and its 
test harness on a number of different machine configurations to verify that the application will 
run as expected.
There are probably other criteria that you need to consider for your individual testing scenario. Take 
time to brainstorm scenarios, worst-case situations, and truly horrifying events, and then test for 
them. The following sections provide some additional insights about the test environment and the 
issues you must consider.
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CHAPTER 18
Using ironPython for APPlicAtion testing
It’s important to remember that IronPython can test more than just .NET 
code. If you can load some type of code into IronPython, you can test it. Of 
course, this means you can test IronPython code at a minimum, but you’ll find 
that you can test other kinds of code as well. The point is that IronPython is a 
good environment for testing multiple kinds of code, which makes it an incred-
ibly flexible testing tool.