13: Ian Cordasco – Betamax
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Testing apps that use requests without using mock.

Interview with Ian Cordasco (@sigmavirus24))

Topics:

• Betamax - python library for replaying requests interactions for use in testing.

• requests

• github3.py

• Pycon 2015 talk: Ian Cordasco - Cutting Off the Internet: Testing Applications that Use Requests - PyCon 2015

• Pytest and using Betamax with pytest fixtures

• The utility (or uselessness) of teaching programming with Java (My own rant mainly)

• Rackspace and Ian’s role at Rackspace and OpenStack

• Python Code Quality Authority: flake8, pep8, mccabe, pylint, astroid, …

• Static code analysis and what to use which tool when.

• Raymond Hettinger - Beyond PEP 8 -- Best practices for beautiful intelligible code - PyCon 2015

Links:

• Testing Python-Requests with Betamax)

• Cutting Off the Internet: Testing Applications that Use Requests - PyCon 2015)

• github3.py)

• requests)

• Rackspace)

• Openstack)

• Python Code Quality Authority) and documentation)

• GitLab)

• Raymond Hettinger - Beyond PEP 8 -- Best practices for beautiful intelligible code - PyCon 2015)

Other Betamax resources:

• Betamaxing Boto3)

• Using Betamax with pytest fixtures)

• Isolated @memoize)