Test-Driven Data Analysis

Reference Testing with TDDA: A Guide for LLMs and Coding Bots

Posted on Wed 20 May 2026 in TDDA • Tagged with reference testing, LLMs, coding bots, gentest, pytest, unittest

Raw markdown for direct use in LLM context windows.

This post is addressed primarily to LLMs and coding agents—it was distilled by Claude from Test-Driven Data Analysis (Radcliffe, CRC Press, 2026; extra resources), the tdda source code, the documentation, and the man pages (also available as markdown). If you …

Gentest Talk at 2022 Toronto Workshop on Reproducibility

Posted on Fri 25 February 2022 in TDDA • Tagged with tests, reference tests, gentest

We released version 2.0 of the Python TDDA library this week. The radical new feature of the 2.0 release is Gentest, a command-line tool for automatically generating tests for more-or-less any code that you can run from a command line.

Gentest was introduced at the 2022 Toronto Workshop …