for the Web, ML & Testing

Arvind Padmanabhan

Web Frameworks

• Bottle
• CherryPy
• Django
• Falcon
• Flask
• Pylons
• Pyramid
• Tornado
• TurboGears
• web.py
• web2py

Characteristics

Python 3 support & PEP8 compliant

Can interface with a WSGI app server

MVC or equivalent pattern

ORM (Object Relational Mapping)

Flexible URL routing & templating

Authentication & access control

Security framework

Form validation

AJAX support

Caching support

Internationalization

Session management

Admin panel & CRUD

Testing framework

Good documentation

Ease of deployment

Can be customized & extended

Open license

Active community and updates

"Batteries included"

"Out-of-the-box-approach"

"Full-stack"

"Bare bones"

"Add-as-you-use-approach"

"Non-full-stack"

PEP8 & Complexity

Performance

WSGI Servers

DB API

Article Pages For Devopedia

• Python web frameworks
• Python template engines
• Python ORM
• WSGI
• Django
• Flask
• Pyramid

For Further Study

1. https://jeffknupp.com/blog/2014/03/03/what-is-a-web-framework/

2. https://www.fullstackpython.com/web-frameworks.html

3. https://wiki.python.org/moin/WebFrameworks

4. http://klen.github.io/py-frameworks-bench/

5. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/best-10-python-frameworks-web-development-elyn-z-6059523132912394240

6. http://steelkiwi.com/blog/best-python-web-frameworks-to-learn/

7. http://insights.dice.com/2016/11/22/5-top-python-web-frameworks-2017/

8. https://www.airpair.com/python/posts/django-flask-pyramid

9. https://djangodeployment.com/2017/01/02/which-wsgi-server-should-i-use/

10. http://codecondo.com/14-minimal-web-frameworks-for-python/

11. http://www.bestwebframeworks.com/compare-web-frameworks/python/

12. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_frameworks#Python_2

13. https://www.fullstackpython.com/template-engines.html

DL/ML Frameworks

Deep Learning

Apache Singa, Brainstorm, Caffe, Chainer, CNTK, Keras, Lasagne, mxnet, Neon, Paddle, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Theano, Veles

No Silver Bullet

Source: https://www.slideshare.net/AIFrontiers/yangqing-jia-towards-better-dl-frameworks

Characteristics

Multi-GPU & Multi-node support

OpenMP & OpenCL support

CUDA support

Modelling capability: CNN, RNN, RBM ...

Interfaces well

Licensing

Modular & extensible

Good documentation

Community support

Active maintenance

Performance

Language bindings

Top ML Frameworks

Performance

Performance

Article Pages For Devopedia

• Python ML frameworks
• TensorFlow
• Theano
• Cloud ML
• SWIG

For Further Study

1. https://deeplearning4j.org/compare-dl4j-torch7-pylearn

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_deep_learning_software

3. https://elitedatascience.com/python-deep-learning-libraries

4. http://www.pyimagesearch.com/2016/06/27/my-top-9-favorite-python-deep-learning-libraries/

5. http://www.infoworld.com/article/3026262/data-science/13-frameworks-for-mastering-machine-learning.html

6. http://www.kdnuggets.com/2017/02/python-deep-learning-frameworks-overview.html

7. http://www.kdnuggets.com/2016/04/top-15-frameworks-machine-learning-experts.html

Testing

Frameworks

Unit Testing

Web Testing

Coverage

Acceptance

Testing

Approaches to Testing

Module Based

Library Based

Data Driven

Keyword Driven

Behaviour Driven

Hybrid

Characteristics

Python 3 support & PEP8 compliant

Mock fixtures

Reporting summary, details, duration, logs

Descriptive reporting for failures

Test discovery

Skip tests or conditional execution

Dependency & order of execution

Web/mobile apps: record & replay

Testing approach

Setup and teardown at various levels

Tests are reusable, maintainable, stable

Parameterized/fuzzy testing

Parallel execution

Includes or integrates with coverage tools

Easy to debug

Good documentation

Can be customized & extended

Open license

Active community and updates

Article Pages For Devopedia

• Python-based test frameworks
• Testing approaches
• Selenium
• Robot Framework
• Katalon Studio

For Further Study

1. https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonTestingToolsTaxonomy

2. https://www.toptal.com/python/an-introduction-to-mocking-in-python

3. http://tjelvarolsson.com/blog/four-tools-for-testing-your-python-code/

4. https://www.slant.co/topics/2621/~python-unit-testing-frameworks

5. https://techbeacon.com/6-top-open-source-testing-automation-frameworks-how-choose

6. https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-python_test/

7. https://www.katalon.com/resources-center/blog/comparison-automated-testing-tools/

8. http://www.guru99.com/quick-test-professional-qtp-tutorial-34.html

9. http://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/test-automation-frameworks-selenium-tutorial-20/