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Interview with Sam Van Oort about pyresttest, "A REST testing and API microbenchmarking tool" pyresttest A question in the Test & Code Slack channel was raised about testing REST APIs. There were answers such as pytest + requests, of course, but there was also a mention of pyresttest, https://github.com/svanoort/pyresttest, which I hadn't heard of. I checked out the github repo, and was struck by how user friendly the user facing test definitions were. So I contacted the developer, Sam Van Oort, and asked him to come on the show and tell me about this tool and why he developed it. Here's the "What is it?" section from the pyresttest README: A REST testing and API microbenchmarking tool Tests are defined in basic YAML or JSON config files, no code needed Minimal dependencies (pycurl, pyyaml, optionally future), making it easy to deploy on-server for smoketests/healthchecks Supports generate/extract/validate mechanisms to create full test scenarios Returns exit codes on failure, to slot into automated configuration management/orchestration tools (also supplies parseable logs) Logic is written and extensible in Python Support Special thanks to my wonderful Patreon supporters and those who have supported the show by purchasing Python Testing with unittest, nose, pytestSponsored By: Patreon Supporters: Help support the show with as little as $1 per month. Funds help pay for expenses associated with the show. Support Test & Code - Software Testing, Development, Python

Interview with Dave Hunt @davehunt82. We Cover: Selenium Driver pytest pytest plugins: pytest-selenium pytest-html pytest-variables tox Dave Hunt’s “help wanted” list on github Mozilla Also: fixtures xfail CI and xfail and html reports CI and capturing pytest code sprint working remotely for Mozilla Sponsored By: Patreon Supporters: Help support the show with as little as $1 per month. Funds help pay for expenses associated with the show. Support Test & Code - Software Testing, Development, Python

pytest is an extremely popular test framework used by many projects and companies. In this episode, I interview Raphael Pierzina (@hackebrot), a core contributor to both pytest and cookiecutter. We discuss how Raphael got involved with both projects, his involvement in cookiecutter, pytest, "adopt pytest month", the pytest code sprint, and of course some of the cool new features in pytest 3. Links: Raphael Pierzina on twitter (@hackebrot) pytest - http://doc.pytest.org cookie cutter - https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter cookiecutter-pytest-plugin - https://github.com/pytest-dev/cookiecutter-pytest-plugin Sponsored By: Patreon Supporters: Help support the show with as little as $1 per month. Funds help pay for expenses associated with the show. Support Test & Code - Software Testing, Development, Python

Kent Beck's twitter profile says "Programmer, author, father, husband, goat farmer". But I know him best from his work on extreme programming, test first programming, and test driven development. He's the one. The reason you know about TDD is because of Kent Beck. I first ran across writings from Kent Beck as started exploring Extreme Programming in the early 2000's. Although I don't agree with all of the views he's expressed in his long and verbose career, I respect him as one of the best sources of information about software development, engineering practices, and software testing. Along with Test First Programming and Test Driven Development, Kent started an automated test framework that turned into jUnit. jUnit and it's model of setup and teardown wrapping test functions, as well base test class driven test frameworks became what we know of as xUnit style frameworks now, which includes Python's unittest. He discussed this history and a lot more on episode 122 of Software Engineering Radio. The episode is titled "The History of JUnit and the Future of Testing with Kent Beck", and is from Sept 26, 2010. http://www.se-radio.net/2010/09/episode-167-the-history-of-junit-and-the-future-of-testing-with-kent-beck/ I urge you to download it and listen to the whole thing. It's a great interview, still relevant, and applicable to testing in any language, including Python. What I've done in this podcast is take a handful of clips from the interview (with permission from IEEE and SERadio), and discuss the clips and my opinions a bit. The lessons are: You're tests should tell a story. Be careful of DRY, inheritance, and other software development practices that might get in the way of keeping your tests easy to understand. All test should help differentiate good programs from bad programs and not be redundant. Test at multiple levels and multiple scales where it makes sense. Differentiating between TDD, BDD, ATDD, etc. isn't as important as testing your software to learn about it. Who cares what you call it. Sponsored By: Patreon Supporters: Help support the show with as little as $1 per month. Funds help pay for expenses associated with the show. Support Test & Code - Software Testing, Development, Python

How do you convert manual tests to automated tests? This episode looks at the differences between manual and automated tests and presents two strategies for converting manual to automated.Sponsored By: Patreon Supporters: Help support the show with as little as $1 per month. Funds help pay for expenses associated with the show. Support Test & Code - Software Testing, Development, Python

A listener requested that I start covering some terminology. I think it's a great idea. Covered in this episode: Test Fixtures Subcutaneous Testing End to End Testing (System Testing) I also discuss: A book rewrite Progress on transcripts A story from the slack channel Sponsored By: Patreon Supporters: Help support the show with as little as $1 per month. Funds help pay for expenses associated with the show. Support Test & Code - Software Testing, Development, Python

I talk with Michael about: Episodes of his show having to do with testing. His transition from employee to podcast host and online training entrepreneur. His Python training courses. The Pyramid Web framework. Courses by Michael Explore Python Jumpstart by Building 10 Apps Explore Write Pythonic Code Like a Seasoned Developer Python for Entrepreneurs Testing related podcast Episodes from Talk Python To Me: episode 10: Harry Percival, TDD for the Web in Python, and PythonAnywhere PythonAnywhere Harry's book, TDD with Python episode 45: Brian Okken, Pragmatic testing and the Testing Column Talk Python To Me podcast episode 63: Austin Bingham, Mutation Testing, Cosmic Ray Cosmic Ray episode 67: David MacIver, Hypothesis Hypothesis Sponsored By: Patreon Supporters: Help support the show with as little as $1 per month. Funds help pay for expenses associated with the show. Support Test & Code - Software Testing, Development, Python

Interview with Robert Collins, current core maintainer of Python's unittest module. Some of the topics covered How did Robert become the maintainer of unittest? unittest2 as a rolling backport of unittest test and class parametrization with subtest and testscenarios Which extension to unittest most closely resembles Pytest fixtures? Comparing Pytest and unittest Will unittest ever get assert rewriting? Future changes to unittest I've been re-studying unittest recently and I mostly wanted to ask Robert a bunch of clarifying questions. This is an intermediate to advanced discussion of unittest. Many great features of unittest go by quickly in this talk. Please let me know if there's something you'd like me to cover in more depth as a blog post or a future episode. Links unittest unittest2 pip mock testtools fixtures testscenarios subunit pipserver devpi testresources TIP (testing in python) mailing list Sponsored By: Patreon Supporters: Help support the show with as little as $1 per month. Funds help pay for expenses associated with the show. Support Test & Code - Software Testing, Development, Python

In this episode, I interview with Joe Stump, cofounder of Sprintly (https://sprint.ly), to give the startup perspective to development and testing. Joe has spent his career in startups. He's also been involved with hiring and talent acquisition for several startups. We talk about testing, continuous integration, code reviews, deployment, tolerance to defects, and how some of those differ between large companies and small companies and startups. Then we get into hiring. Specifically, finding and evaluating good engineers, and then getting them to be interested in working for you. If you ever want to grow your team size, you need to listen to this.Sponsored By: Rollbar: Full-stack error tracking for all apps in any language. Patreon Supporters: Help support the show with as little as $1 per month. Funds help pay for expenses associated with the show. Support Test & Code - Software Testing, Development, Python

The Travis Foundation. Interview with Laura Gaetano Links and things we talked about: Travis Foundation Open Source Grants The Foundation's support of Katrina Owen from exercism.io Exercism.io Rails Girls summer of code Diversity Tickets Conference support Speakerinnen Prompt Sponsored By: Patreon Supporters: Help support the show with as little as $1 per month. Funds help pay for expenses associated with the show. Rollbar: Full-stack error tracking for all apps in any language. Support Test & Code - Software Testing, Development, Python

This is a small episode. I'm changing the name from the "Python Test Podcast" to "Test & Code". I just want to discuss the reasons behind this change, and take a peek at what's coming up in the future for this podcast. Links The Waterfall Model and "Managing the Development of Large Software Systems" Josh Kalderimis from Travis CI Support Test & Code - Software Testing, Development, Python

An introduction to Lean Software Development This is a quick intro to the concepts of Lean Software Development. I'm starting a journey of trying to figure out how to apply lean principles to software development in the context of 2016/2017. Links Lean Software Development book by Mary & Tom Poppendieck wikipedia entry for Lean Software Development Patreon supporters of the show Talk Python to Me Podcast Python Jumpstart by Building 10 Apps - video course pytest sprint pytest.org pytest/tox indiegogo campaign Support Test & Code - Software Testing, Development, Python

Interview with Josh Kalderimis from Travis CI. Josh is a co-founder and Chief Post-It Officer at Travis CI. Topics What is Continuous Integration, CI What is Travis CI Some history of the company travis-ci.org vs travis-ci.com and merging the two Enterprise and the importance of security Feature questions Travis vs Jenkins Travis notification through Slack Reporting history of Travis results Dealing with pytest results status other than pass/fail Capturing std out and stderr logging from tests Build artifacts Tox and Travis Using Selenium What does a Chief Post-It Officer do Differentiation between Travis and other CI options Using Slack to keep remote teams communicating well Travis team Funding open source projects Travis Foundation Rails Girls Summer of Code Open source grants Mustaches and beards Shite shirts New Zealand What does Team Periwinkle do Links Jeff Knupp's Open Sourcing a Python Project the Right Way Sven's blog post when Travis started Sven's mustache and Josh's beard Travis CI for open source Travis CI for private repositories and enterprise Slack Travis Foundation Rails Girls Summer of Code Talk Python to Me Podcast Support Test & Code - Software Testing, Development, Python

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 Support Test & Code - Software Testing, Development, Python

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: Ned Batchelder Coverage Coverage documentation django-nose pytest-django edX open edX Boston Python User Group Portland Python User Group - I need to go to these PyCon 2016 - Planning on attending, it's in Portland. Yay! Getting Started Testing - Ned's 2014 Pycon talk Support Test & Code - Software Testing, Development, Python