Test & Code

100 Days of Code - Julian Sequeira

December 28th, 2018  |  34 mins 33 secs

100daysofcode, learning python

Julian Sequeira is Co-Founder of PyBit.es (a blog/platform created to teach and learn Python) and a Python Trainer at Talk Python Training.
He's also a survivor of the 100DaysOfCode in Python Challenge.

Genesynth, nox, urllib3, & PyCascades - Thea Flowers

December 21st, 2018  |  31 mins 5 secs

hardware hacking, nox, pycascades, sega genesis, tox, urllib3

Interview with Thea Flowers, a Pythonista and open source advocate. We start the conversation talking about a custom synthesizer she's building from Sega Genesis chips. We also talk about nox, urllib3, and PyCascades.

REST APIs, testing with Docker containers and pytest

December 13th, 2018  |  28 mins 9 secs

api, docker, fixtures, pytest, rest, web

Dima Spivak, Director of Engineering at StreamSets, explains how they use pytest and Docker containers to test their application through a REST API and some customizations.

What is Data Science? - Vicki Boykis

December 10th, 2018  |  30 mins 47 secs

data engineering, data pipelines, data science, etl, machine learning, software engineering

Data science, data engineering, data analysis, and machine learning are part of the recent massive growth of Python.

But really what is data science?

Vicki Boykis works on projects in machine learning and data engineering across a variety of industries, and joins this episode to help us understand really what is data science.

Being a Guest on a Podcast - Michael Kennedy

December 6th, 2018  |  37 mins 15 secs

guest, podcasting

Michael Kennedy of Talk Python and Python Bytes fame joins Brian to talk about being a great guest and what to expect.

55: When 100% test coverage just isn't enough - Mahmoud Hashemi

December 3rd, 2018  |  34 mins 7 secs

awesome python applications, dsl software testing, python testing

What happens when 100% test code coverage just isn't enough.
In this episode, we talk with Mahmoud Hashemi about glom, a very cool project in itself, but a project that needs more coverage than 100%.
This problem affects lots of projects that use higher level programming constructs, like domain specific languages (DSLs), sub languages mini languages, compilers, and db query languages.

54: Python 1994 - Paul Everitt

November 25th, 2018  |  29 mins 24 secs

python

Paul talks about the beginning years of Python.
Talking about Python's beginnings is also talking about the Python community beginnings.
Yes, it's reminiscing, but it's fun.

53: Seven Databases in Seven Weeks - Luc Perkins

November 18th, 2018  |  54 mins 46 secs

databases

A discussion with Luc Perkins, co-author of "Seven Databases in Seven Weeks, Second Edition:
A Guide to Modern Databases and the NoSQL Movement"

52: pyproject.toml : the future of Python packaging - Brett Cannon

November 5th, 2018  |  50 mins 51 secs

ci, flit, lock files, pipenv, poetry, pyproject.toml, python packaging, tox

Deep dive with Brett Cannon into changes in to Python packaging such as pyproject.toml, PEP 517, 518, and the implications of these changes.

51: Feature Testing

October 30th, 2018  |  31 mins 35 secs

feature testing, software testing, testing pyramid

Andy Knight joins Brian Okken in discussing Feature Tests as opposed to Class Tests

50: Flaky Tests and How to Deal with Them

October 25th, 2018  |  32 mins 20 secs

continuous integration, pytest, selenium, software testing, test design

Flaky tests, tests that sometimes fail and sometimes pass are a huge problem for teams maintaining large test suites. We discuss flakiness, what affects it has on the team, how to manage flaky suites, and how to fix and avoid flaky tests.

49: tox - Oliver Bestwalter

October 15th, 2018  |  55 mins 41 secs

automation, testing, tox

tox is not just a tool to help you test a Python project against multiple versions of Python. In this interview, Oliver and Brian just scratch the surface of this simple yet powerful automation tool.

48: A GUI for pytest

October 7th, 2018  |  12 mins 11 secs

developer efficiency, gui, pytest

The story of how I discovered the current best GUI to run pytest.

47: Automation Panda - Andy Knight

September 28th, 2018  |  39 mins

bdd, gherkin, selenium, webdriver

Interview with Andy Knight, the Automation Panda.

46: Testing Hard To Test Applications - Anthony Shaw

September 2nd, 2018  |  42 mins 45 secs

How do you write tests for things that aren’t that easy to write tests for?

Brian & Anthony get started answering this question.

45: David Heinemeier Hansson - Software Development and Testing, TDD, and exploratory QA

August 13th, 2018  |  40 mins 32 secs

exploratory qa, software testing, tdd

An interview with DHH about his views on software testing, TDD, and exploratory testing.