Building any software, including web apps and APIs requires testing.
There's automated testing, and there's manual testing.

In between that is exploratory testing aided by automation tools.

Michael Kennedy joins the show this week to share some of the tools he uses during development and maintenance.

We talk about tools used for semi-automated exploratory testing.
We also talk about some of the other tools and techniques he uses to keep Talk Python Training, Talk Python, and Python Bytes all up and running smoothly.

We talk about:

Postman
ngrok
sitemap link testing
scripts for manual processes
using failover servers during maintenance, redeployments, etc
gitHub webhooks and scripts to between fail over servers and production during deployments automatically
floating IP addresses
services to monitor your site: StatusCake, BetterUptime
the affect of monitoring on analytics
crash reporting: Rollbar, Sentry
response times
load testing: Locus

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