Episode Archive

Season 2: pytest plugins

• S2:E11: pytest-metadata - provides access to test session metadata
  
• S2:E10: pytest-check - allow multiple failures per test
  
• S2:E9: The role of AI in software testing - Anthony Shaw
  
• S2:E8: pytest-repeat - works fine on Python 3.14
  
• S2:E7: Python 3.14 won't repeat with pytest-repeat
  
• S2:E6: pytest-html - a plugin that generates HTML reports for test results
  
• S2:E5: pytest-md and pytest-md-report: Markdown reports for pytest
  
• S2:E4: Mocking in Python with unittest.mock - Michael Foord
  
• S2:E3: pytest-mock : Mocking in pytest
  
• S2:E2: pytest-cov : The pytest plugin for measuring coverage
  
• S2:E1: pytest plugins - a full season
  

Season 1: 2015-2024

• 223: Writing Stuff Down is a Super Power
  
• 222: Import within a Python package
  
• 221: How to get pytest to import your code under test
  
• 220: Getting the most out of PyCon, including juggling - Rob Ludwick
  
• 219: Building Django Apps & SaaS Pegasus - Cory Zue
  
• 218: Balancing test coverage with test costs - Nicole Tietz-Sokolskaya
  
• 217: Podcasting / SaaS / Work Life Balance - Justin Jackson
  
• 216: ruff, uv, and Astral: Python tooling, much faster, with Rust
  
• 215: Staying Technical as a Manager
  
• 214: Python Testing in VS Code
  
• 213: Repeating Tests
  
• 212: Canon TDD - by Kent Beck
  
• 211: Stamp out test dependencies with pytest plugins
  
• 210: TDD - Refactor while green
  
• 209: Testing argparse Applications
  
• 208: Tests with no assert statements
  
• 207: pytest course, pytest-repeat and pytest-flakefinder
  
• 206: TDD in Context
  
• 205: pytest autouse fixtures
  
• 204: Free Your Inner Nonfiction Writer - Johanna Rothman
  
• 203: Open Source at Intel
  
• 202: Using Towncrier to Keep a Changelog - Hynek Schlawack
  
• 201: Avoid merge conflicts on your CHANGELOG with scriv - Ned Batchelder
  
• 200: Keep a CHANGELOG
  
• 199: Is Azure Right for a Side Project? - Pamela Fox
  
• 198: Testing Django Web Applications - Carlton Gibson, Will Vincent
  
• 197: Python project trove classifiers - Do you need this bit of pyproject.toml metadata?
  
• 196: I am not a supplier
  
• 195: What would you change about pytest?
  
• 193: The Good Research Code Handbook - Patrick Mineault
  
• 192: Learn to code through game development with PursuedPyBear - Piper Thunstrom
  
• 191: Running your own site for fun and absolutely no profit whatsoever - Brian Wisti
  
• 190: Testing PyPy - Carl Friedrich Bolz-Tereick
  
• 189: attrs and dataclasses - Hynek Schlawack
  
• 188: Python’s Rich, Textual, and Textualize - Innovating the CLI
  
• 187: Teaching Web Development, including Front End Testing
  
• 186: Developer and Team Productivity
  
• 185: Python + Django + Rich + Testing == Awesome
  
• 184: Twisted and Testing Event Driven / Asynchronous Applications - Glyph
  
• 183: Managing Software Teams - Ryan Cheley
  
• 182: An Unorthodox Technical Interview and Hiring Process - Nathan Aschbacher
  
• 181: Boost Your Django DX - Adam Johnson
  
• 180: Lean TDD
  
• 179: Exploratory Testing
  
• 178: The Five Factors of Automated Software Testing
  
• 177: Unit Test vs Integration Test and The Testing Trophy
  
• 176: SaaS Side Projects
  
• 175: Who Should Do QA?
  
• 174: pseudo-TDD - Paul Ganssle
  
• 173: Why NOT unittest?
  
• 172: Designing Better Software with a Prototype Mindset
  
• 171: How and why I use pytest’s xfail - Paul Ganssle
  
• 170: pytest for Data Science and Machine Learning - Prayson Daniel
  
• 169: Service and Microservice Performance Monitoring - Omri Sass
  
• 168: Understanding Complex Code by Refactoring into Larger Functions
  
• 167: React, TypeScript, and the Joy of Testing - Paul Everitt
  
• 166: unittest expectedFailure and xfail
  
• 165: pytest xfail policy and workflow
  
• 164: Debugging Python Test Failures with pytest
  
• 163: pip install ./local_directory - Stéphane Bidoul
  
• 162: Flavors of TDD
  
• 161: Waste in Software Development
  
• 160: DRY, WET, DAMP, AHA, and removing duplication from production code and test code
  
• 159: Python, pandas, and Twitter Analytics - Matt Harrison
  
• 158: TDD in Swift - Gio
  
• 157: pre-commit - Anthony Sottile
  
• 156: Flake8: Python linting framework with Pyflakes, pycodestyle, McCabe, and more - Anthony Sottile
  
• 155: Four Questions to Ask Frequently During Software Projects - Tim Ottinger
  
• 154: Don’t Mock your Database - Jeff Triplett
  
• 153: Playwright for Python: end to end testing of web apps - Ryan Howard
  
• 152: Python Packaging - Brett Cannon
  
• 151: Python Adventure - Brandon Rhodes
  
• 150: A Practical Testing Strategy
  
• 149: I don’t test my code, “crappy Python” is all I write - Corey Quinn
  
• 148: Coverage.py and testing packages
  
• 147: Testing Single File Python Applications/Scripts with pytest and coverage
  
• 146: Automation Tools for Web App and API Development and Maintenance - Michael Kennedy
  
• 145: For Those About to Mock - Michael Foord
  
• 144: TDD in Science - Martin Héroux
  
• 143: pytest markers - Anthony Sottile
  
• 142: MongoDB - Mark Smith
  
• 141: Visual Testing - Angie Jones
  
• 140: Testing in Scientific Research and Academia - Martin Héroux
  
• 139: Test Automation: Shifting Testing Throughout the Software Lifecycle - Nalin Parbhu
  
• 138: Mutation Testing in Python with mutmut - Anders Hovmöller
  
• 137: Become an Author - Matt Harrison interviews Brian Okken
  
• 136: Wearable Technology - Sophy Wong
  
• 135: Speeding up Django Test Suites - Adam Johnson
  
• 134: Business Outcomes and Software Development - Benjamin Harding
  
• 133: Major League Hacking - Jon Gottfried
  
• 132: mocking in Python - Anna-Lena Popkes
  
• 131: Test Smarter, Not Harder
  
• 130: virtualenv activation prompt consistency across shells - an open source dev and test adventure - Brian Skinn
  
• 129: How to Test Anything - David Lord
  
• 128: pytest-randomly - Adam Johnson
  
• 127: WFH, WTF? - Tips and Tricks for Working From Home - Reuven Lerner & Julian Sequeira
  
• 126: Data Science and Software Engineering Practices ( and Fizz Buzz ) - Joel Grus
  
• 125: pytest 6 - Anthony Sottile
  
• 124: pip dependency resolver changes
  
• 123: GitHub Actions - Tania Allard
  
• 122: Better Resumes for Software Engineers - Randall Kanna
  
• 121: Industrial 3D Printing & Python, Finite State Machines, and Simulating Hardware - Len Wanger
  
• 120: FastAPI & Typer - Sebastián Ramírez
  
• 119: Editable Python Installs, Packaging Standardization, and pyproject.toml - Brett Cannon
  
• 118: Code Coverage and 100% Coverage
  
• 117: Python extension for VS Code - Brett Cannon
  
• 116: 15 amazing pytest plugins - Michael Kennedy
  
• 115: Catching up with Nina Zakharenko
  
• 114: The Python Software Foundation (PSF) Board Elections - Ewa Jodlowska / Christopher Neugebauer
  
• 113: Technical Debt - James Smith
  
• 112: Six Principles of Readable Tests - David Seddon
  
• 111: Subtests in Python with unittest and pytest - Paul Ganssle
  
• 110: Testing Django - from unittest to pytest - Adam Parkin
  
• 109: Testing in Financial Services - Eric Bergemann
  
• 108: PySpark - Jonathan Rioux
  
• 107: Property Based Testing in Python with Hypothesis - Alexander Hultnér
  
• 106: Visual Testing : How IDEs can make software testing easier - Paul Everitt
  
• 105: TAP: Test Anything Protocol - Matt Layman
  
• 104: Top 28 pytest plugins - Anthony Sottile
  
• 103: Django - Lacey Williams Henschel
  
• 102: Cosmic Python, TDD, testing and external dependencies - Harry Percival
  
• 101: Application Security - Anthony Shaw
  
• 100: A/B Testing - Leemay Nassery
  
• 99: Software Maintenance and Chess
  
• 98: pytest-testmon - selects tests affected by changed files and methods - Tibor Arpas
  
• 97: 2019 Retrospective, 2020 Plans, and an amazing decade
  
• 96: Azure Pipelines - Thomas Eckert
  
• 95: Data Science Pipeline Testing with Great Expectations - Abe Gong
  
• 94: The real 11 reasons I don’t hire you - Charity Majors
  
• 93: Software Testing, Book Writing, Teaching, Public Speaking, and PyCarolinas - Andy Knight
  
• 92: 9 Steps to Crater Quality & Destroy Customer Satisfaction - Cristian Medina
  
• 91: Python 3.8 - there’s a lot more new than most people are talking about
  
• 90: Dynamic Scope Fixtures in pytest 5.2 - Anthony Sottile
  
• 89: Improving Programming Education - Nicholas Tollervey
  
• 88: Error Monitoring, Crash Reporting, Performance Monitoring - JD Trask
  
• 87: Paths to Parametrization - from one test to many
  
• 86: Teaching testing best practices with 4 testing maxims - Josh Peak
  
• 85: Speed Up Test Suites - Niklas Meinzer
  
• 84: CircuitPython - Scott Shawcroft
  
• 83: PyBites Code Challenges behind the scenes - Bob Belderbos
  
• 82: pytest - favorite features since 3.0 - Anthony Sottile
  
• 81: TDD with flit
  
• 80: From Python script to Maintainable Package
  
• 79: Fixing misinformation about software testing
  
• 78: I don’t write tests because …
  
• 77: Testing Complex Systems with Maintainable Test Suites
  
• 76: TDD: Don’t be afraid of Test-Driven Development - Chris May
  
• 75: Modern Testing Principles - Alan Page
  
• 74: Technical Interviews: Preparing For, What to Expect, and Tips for Success - Derrick Mar
  
• 73: PyCon 2019 Live Recording
  
• 72: Technical Interview Fixes - April Wensel
  
• 71: Memorable Tech Talks, The Ultimate Guide - Nina Zakharenko
  
• 70: Learning Software without a CS degree - Dane Hillard
  
• 69: Andy Hunt - The Pragmatic Programmer
  
• 68: test && commit || revert (TCR) - Thomas Deniffel
  
• 67: Teaching Python in Middle School
  
• 66: Brian is interviewed by Phil Burgess
  
• 65: one assert per test
  
• 64: Practicing Programming to increase your value
  
• 63: Python Corporate Training - Matt Harrison
  
• 62: Python Training - Reuven Lerner
  
• A retrospective
  
• 100 Days of Code - Julian Sequeira
  
• Genesynth, nox, urllib3, & PyCascades - Thea Flowers
  
• REST APIs, testing with Docker containers and pytest
  
• What is Data Science? - Vicki Boykis
  
• Being a Guest on a Podcast - Michael Kennedy
  
• 55: When 100% test coverage just isn’t enough - Mahmoud Hashemi
  
• 54: Python 1994 - Paul Everitt
  
• 53: Seven Databases in Seven Weeks - Luc Perkins
  
• 52: pyproject.toml : the future of Python packaging - Brett Cannon
  
• 51: Feature Testing
  
• 50: Flaky Tests and How to Deal with Them
  
• 49: tox - Oliver Bestwalter
  
• 48: A GUI for pytest
  
• 47: Automation Panda - Andy Knight
  
• 46: Testing Hard To Test Applications - Anthony Shaw
  
• 45: David Heinemeier Hansson - Software Development and Testing, TDD, and exploratory QA
  
• 44: Mentoring - Nina Zakharenko
  
• Preparing for Technical Talks with Kelsey Hightower - bonus episode
  
• 43: Kelsey Hightower - End to End & Integration Testing
  
• 42: Using Automated Tests to Help Teach Python - Trey Hunner
  
• 41: Testing in DevOps and Agile - Anthony Shaw
  
• 40: On Podcasting - Adam Clark
  
• 39: Thorough software testing for critical features
  
• 38: Prioritize software tests with RCRCRC
  
• 37: What tests to write first
  
• 36: Stephanie Hurlburt - Mentoring and Open Office Hours
  
• 35: Continuing Education and Certificate Programs at UW
  
• 34: TDD and Test First
  
• 33: Katharine Jarmul - Testing in Data Science
  
• 32: David Hussman - Agile vs Agility, Dude’s Law, and more
  
• 31: I’m so sick of the testing pyramid
  
• 30: Legacy Code - M. Scott Ford
  
• 29: Kobiton & QASymphony - Josh Lieberman
  
• 28: Chaos Engineering & Experimentation at Netflix - Casey Rosenthal
  
• 27: Mahmoud Hashemi : unit, integration, and system testing
  
• 26: pyresttest – Sam Van Oort
  
• 25: Selenium, pytest, Mozilla – Dave Hunt
  
• 24: pytest with Raphael Pierzina
  
• 23: Lessons about testing and TDD from Kent Beck
  
• 22: Converting Manual Tests to Automated Tests
  
• 21: Terminology: test fixtures, subcutaneous testing, end to end testing, system testing
  
• 20: Talk Python To Me host Michael Kennedy
  
• 19: Python unittest with Robert Collins
  
• 18: Testing in Startups and Hiring Software Engineers with Joe Stump
  
• 17: The Travis Foundation
  
• 16: Welcome to Test and Code
  
• 15: Lean Software Development
  
• 14: Continuous Integration with Travis CI – Josh Kalderimis
  
• 13: Ian Cordasco – Betamax
  
• 12: Coverage.py with Ned Batchelder
  
• 11: pytest assert magic
  
• 10: Test Case Design using Given-When-Then from BDD
  
• 9: Harry Percival : Testing Web Apps with Python, Selenium, Django
  
• 8: Agile vs Agility : Agile Is Dead (Long Live Agility)
  
• 7: The Waterfall Model and “Managing the Development of Large Software Systems”
  
• 6: Writing software is like nothing else
  
• 5: Test Classes: No OO experience required
  
• 4: Test Fixtures: Setup, Teardown, and so much more
  
• 3: Why test?
  
• 2: Pytest vs Unittest vs Nose