Episode Archive
65 episodes of Test & Code - Software Testing, Development, Python since the first episode, which aired on August 11th, 2015.
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33: Katharine Jarmul - Testing in Data Science
November 30th, 2017 | 37 mins 14 secs
data science, fuzz testing, software testing
A discussion with Katharine Jarmul, aka kjam, about some of the challenges of data science with respect to testing.
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32: David Hussman - Agile vs Agility, Dude's Law, and more
October 3rd, 2017 | 47 mins 27 secs
agile methodologies, agility, learning, tdd, testing, xp
A wonderful discussion with David Hussman. David and Brian look back at what all we've learned in XP, TDD, and other Agile methodologies, where things have gone awry, how to bring the value back, and where testing fits into all of this.
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31: I'm so sick of the testing pyramid
September 27th, 2017 | 39 mins 57 secs
tdd, testing strategy, unit testing
What started as a twitter disagreement carries over into this civil discussion of software testing. Brian and Paul discuss testing practices such as the testing pyramid, TDD, unit testing, system testing, and balancing test effort.
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30: Legacy Code - M. Scott Ford
July 31st, 2017 | 41 mins 47 secs
kanban, legacy code, readability, testing pyramid
M. Scott Ford is the founder and chief code whisperer at Corgibytes, a company focused on helping other companies with legacy code. We talk about the company, about testing strategy, getting a handle on technical debt and process debt, iterative development, and a lot more.
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29: Kobiton & QASymphony - Josh Lieberman
June 30th, 2017 | 18 mins 2 secs
mobile testing, qa tools, software testing
Interview with Josh Lieberman about Kobiton and QASymphony
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28: Chaos Engineering & Experimentation at Netflix - Casey Rosenthal
April 7th, 2017 | 32 mins 55 secs
chaos engineering, distributed systems, experimentation, testing strategy
Chaos Engineering
Experimentation vs Testing
With Casey Rosenthal, manager for the Traffic, Intuition, and Chaos teams at Netflix -
27: Mahmoud Hashemi : unit, integration, and system testing
February 26th, 2017 | 41 mins 56 secs
enterprise software, integration testing, system testing, tdd, testing column, testing pyramid, unit testing, web frameworks
What is the difference between a unit test, an integration test, and a system test? Mahmoud Hashemi helps me to define these terms, as well as discuss the role of all testing variants in software development.
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26: pyresttest – Sam Van Oort
December 1st, 2016 | 57 mins 55 secs
pyresttest, rest, yaml
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,
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25: Selenium, pytest, Mozilla – Dave Hunt
November 30th, 2016 | 42 mins 20 secs
continuous integration, jenkins, mozilla, pytest, selenium, tox
Interview with Dave Hunt @davehunt82. We Cover: Selenium Driver: http://www.seleniumhq.org/ pytest: http://docs.pytest.org/ pytest plugins: pytest-selenium: http://pytest-selenium.readthedocs.io/ pytest-html: https://pypi.python.
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24: pytest with Raphael Pierzina
November 10th, 2016 | 35 mins 15 secs
cookiecutter, pytest
pytest 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 proj...
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23: Lessons about testing and TDD from Kent Beck
September 30th, 2016 | 13 mins 46 secs
tdd
Discussion and audio clips from a previous interview with Kent Beck
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22: Converting Manual Tests to Automated Tests
September 24th, 2016 | 10 mins 56 secs
manual tests
How do you convert manual tests to automated tests?
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21: Terminology: test fixtures, subcutaneous testing, end to end testing, system testing
August 31st, 2016 | 18 mins 6 secs
end to end testing, fixtures, given-when-then, system testing
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 t...
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20: Talk Python To Me host Michael Kennedy
July 29th, 2016 | 47 mins 13 secs
pycharm, pyramid, training
Interview with Michael Kennedy from the Talk Python To Me podcast
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19: Python unittest with Robert Collins
June 15th, 2016 | 40 mins 25 secs
unittest
Python's unittest module, advanced features, comparison to pytest, future features, and more.
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18: Testing in Startups and Hiring Software Engineers with Joe Stump
April 19th, 2016 | 53 mins 28 secs
agile, hiring, small teams, startup, strategy
In this epsiode, I interview with Joe Stump, cofounder of Sprintly, to give the startup perspective to development and testing.