Summary: <p>Upcoming topic categories:</p> <ul> <li>Mechanics of testing</li> <li>testing concepts and strategies</li> <li>Software development methodologies</li> <li>Software development skills and best practices</li> <li>Software testing in education and programming instruction</li> <li>Using Python test frameworks for non-Python projects</li> </ul> <p>Each of the categories is broken into topic ideas in the audio.</p> <p>Goals:</p> <ol> <li>Promote the idea that strategically combining software testing into the development process does NOT take more time.</li> <li>Have learning a test framework be easy.</li> <li>Promote pytest for new projects.</li> <li>Cover unittest and nose, and how to work around some of their limitations.</li> <li>Promote functional, system, and subcutaneous testing.</li> <li>Promote the phrase "automated test" in place of "unit test" in most usages.</li> <li>Introduce people to topics around software development and software testing.</li> <li>Promote "Lean TDD": the good parts of Agile, Lean, BDD, and TDD.</li> <li>Create a podcast series that can be used as a reference. 10-12. Stretch goals. Listen to the audio for these.</li> </ol> <p>Also covered:</p> <ul> <li>how we're gonna deal with code examples since this is audio</li> <li>will there be guests or sponsors</li> <li>how frequent will the show be</li> </ul> <p>Audience:</p> <ul> <li>software developers/engineers</li> <li>software testers</li> <li>team leads</li> <li>software project managers</li> </ul><p>Sponsored By:</p><ul><li> <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.patreon.com/testpodcast">Patreon Supporters</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.patreon.com/testpodcast">Help support the show with as little as $1 per month. Funds help pay for expenses associated with the show.</a> </li></ul><p><a rel="payment" href="https://www.patreon.com/testpodcast">Support Test & Code - Software Testing, Development, Python</a></p>
