Test & Code

Building software is more fun with tests.

Episodes

Total: 226

This episode is a replay of a 2021 interview I did with Michael Foord.We lost Michael in January, an

pytest-mock is currently the #3 pytest plugin. pytest-mock is a wrapper around unittest.mock.In this

pytest-cov is a pytest plugin that helps produce coverage reports using Coverage.py.In this episode,

This episode kicks off a season of pytest plugins.In this episode:Introduction to pytest pluginsThe

Taking notes well can help to listen better, remember things, show respect, be more accountable, fre

In this episode we're talking about importing part of a package into another part of the same packag

We've got some code we want to test, and some tests.The tests need to be able to import the code und

PyCon US is just around the corner.  I've asked Rob Ludwick to come on the show to discuss how to ge

I'm starting a SaaS project using Django, and there are tons of decisions right out of the gate. To

Nicole is a software engineer and writer, and recently wrote about the trade-offs we make when decid

If you've ever thought about starting a podcast or a SaaS project, you'll want to listen to this epi

Charlie Marsh and team are using Rust to make Python tooling faster.Ruff can take the place of Flake

Software engineers that move into leadership roles have a struggle between learning leadership skill

If you haven't tried running automated tests, especially with pytest,  in VS Code recently, you shou

213: Repeating Tests

2024/1/19

If a test fails in a test suite, I'm going to want to re-run the test. I may even want to re-run a t

In 2002, Kent Beck released a book called  "Test Driven Development by Example".In December of 2023,

We want to be able to run tests in a suite, and debug them in isolation, and have the behavior be th

Test Driven Development. Red, Green, Refactor. Do we have to do the refactor part? Does the refactor

How do you test the argument parsing bit of an application that uses argparse?This episode covers:De

Why on earth would you want to write a test with no assert statements?After all, aren't assert state