13: Ian Cordasco – Betamax

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

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Creators and Guests

Brian Okken
Host
Brian Okken
Software Engineer, also on Python Bytes and Python People podcasts
Ian Stapleton Cordasco
Guest
Ian Stapleton Cordasco
Principal Engineer focused on security, quality, safety, and resilience.
13: Ian Cordasco – Betamax
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