In this episode I interview Ned Batchelder.

I know that coverage.py is very important to a lot of people to understand how much of their code is being covered by their test suites.
Since I'm far from an expert on coverage, I asked Ned to discuss it on the show.

I'm also quite a fan of Ned's 2014 PyCon talk "Getting Started Testing", so I definitely asked him about that.

We also discuss edX, Python user groups, PyCon talks, and more.

Some of what's covered (pun intended) in this episode:

coverage.py
- types of coverage
  - Line coverage
  - branch coverage
  - Behavior coverage
  - Data coverage
- How Ned became the owner of coverage.py
- Running tests from coverage.py vs running coverage from test runner.
edX
- what is it
- what Ned's role is
Ned's blog
Ned's PyCon 2014 talk "Getting Started Testing"
- Teaching testing and the difficulty of the classes being part of unittest
- fixtures package
- some of the difficulties of teaching unittest because of it's class based system.
- the history of classes in unittest coming from java's jUnit implementation
Boston's Python Group
PyCon in Portland
Ned to do a talk here "Machete mode debugging".
Practicing PyCon talks at local group meetings.
At the very least, practice it in front of a live audience.

Links:

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