145: For Those About to Mock - Michael Foord
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A discussion about mocking in Python with the original contributor of unittest.mock, Michael Foord.

Of course we discuss mocking and unittest.mock.

We also discuss:

• testing philosophy

• unit testing and what a unit is

• TDD

• where Michael's towel is, and what color

Micheal was instrumental in the building of testing tools for Python, and continues to be a pragmatic source of honest testing philosopy in a field that has a lot of contradictory information.

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Special Guest: Michael Foord.

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Links:

• unittest.mock - Python docs)

• Mocks Aren't Stubs - Martin Fowler)

• pytest-mock)

• mock.patch)

• Autospeccing)

• Arrange Act Assert)

• testing-in-python mailing list)

• Classical and Mockist Testing) — Classical and Mockist Testing

• Test First Programming / Test First Development)

• episode 102: Cosmic Python, TDD, testing and external dependencies - Harry Percival)

• episode 132: mocking in Python - Anna-Lena Popkes)

• pytest)

• unittest - Python docs)

• pytest assert usage)

• 30 best practices for software development and testing | Opensource.com)