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Test & Code

Building software is more fun with tests.

Episodes

Total: 268

How do you test installed packages using coverage.py? Also, a couple followups from last week's e

Have you ever written a single file Python application or script? Have you written tests for it? Do

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

A discussion about mocking in Python with the original contributor of unittest.mock, Michael Foord.

Test Driven Development, TDD, is not easy to incorporate in your daily development. Martin and Bri

Completely nerding out about pytest markers with Anthony Sottile. Some of what we talk about: Run

142: MongoDB - Mark Smith

2021/1/25

MongoDB is possibly the most recognizable NoSQL document database. Mark Smith, a developer advocate

Visual Testing has come a long way from the early days of x,y mouse clicks and pixel comparisons. An

Scientists learn programming as they need it. Some of them learn it in college, but even if they do,

Talking with Nalin Parbhu about the software evolution towards more test automation and the creation

Your test suite tells you about the quality of your code under test. Mutation testing is a way to te

Matt Harrison, author of many Python books, is putting together a course, Effective Book Authoring,

Wearable technology is not just smart consumer devices like watches and activity trackers. Wearabl

All test suites start fast. But as you grow your set of tests, each test adds a little bit of time t

Within software projects, there are lots of metrics we could measure. But which ones really matter.

Hackathons have been spreading around the world; many at university campuses. Major League Hacking,

Using mock objects during testing in Python. Anna-Lena joins the podcast to teach us about mocks an

Some people avoid writing tests. Some drudge through it painfully. There is a better way. In this ep

virtualenv supports six shells: bash, csh, fish, xonsh, cmd, posh. Each handles prompts slightly dif

I asked people on twitter to fill in "How do I test _____?" to find out what people want to know how