Test & Code - Software Testing, Development, Python
Episode Archive
Episode Archive
71 episodes of Test & Code - Software Testing, Development, Python since the first episode, which aired on August 20th, 2015.
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40: On Podcasting - Adam Clark
April 10th, 2018 | 48 mins 47 secs
podcasting
A discussion about podcasting with Adam Clark from The Gently Mad and Irresistible Podcasting.
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39: Thorough software testing for critical features
March 29th, 2018 | 18 mins 59 secs
boundary value analysis, decision tables, equivalence partitioning, parametrization, test case design
Some functionality is important enough to make sure the test behavior coverage is thorough. In this episode, we discuss 3 techniques that can be combined to quickly generate test cases. We then talk about how to implement them efficiently in pytest.
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38: Prioritize software tests with RCRCRC
March 13th, 2018 | 11 mins 13 secs
heuristics, mnemonics
Use the RCRCRC mnemonic/heuristic to prioritize functionality that needs to be tested.
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37: What tests to write first
March 7th, 2018 | 20 mins 55 secs
testing strategy
What tests to you write first when testing a legacy system? Or any system really?
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36: Stephanie Hurlburt - Mentoring and Open Office Hours
February 12th, 2018 | 31 mins 21 secs
image compression, mentoring, open office hours, testing complex systems, twitter dms
A discussion with Stephanie Hurburt about how she mentors people new in the field through open DMs and open office hours.
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35: Continuing Education and Certificate Programs at UW
January 31st, 2018 | 25 mins 18 secs
continuing education
A discussion about continuing education, specifically certificate programs, at UW and other universities, either online or in person.
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34: TDD and Test First
December 31st, 2017 | 25 mins
tdd, test first, xp
Test Driven Development (TDD), how it relates to Test First, and what is Test First Development.
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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.