All Episodes
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36: Stephanie Hurlburt - Mentoring and Open Office Hours
Stephanie is a co-founder and graphics engineer at Binomial. She works on Basis, an image compressor, and has customers in games, video, mapping, and any application ...
35: Continuing Education and Certificate Programs at UW
There are lots of ways to up your skills. Of course, I'm a big fan of learning through reading books, such as upping your testing skills by reading Python Testing with...
34: TDD and Test First
An in depth discussion of Test Driven Development (TDD) should include a discussion of Test First. So that's where we start. Why write tests first? How do you know w...
33: Katharine Jarmul - Testing in Data Science
A discussion with Katharine Jarmul, aka kjam, about some of the challenges of data science with respect to testing. Some of the topics we discuss: experimentation v...
32: David Hussman - Agile vs Agility, Dude's Law, and more
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, ...
31: I'm so sick of the testing pyramid
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 pyram...
30: Legacy Code - M. Scott Ford
M. Scott Ford is the founder and chief code whisperer at Corgibytes, a company focused on helping other companies with legacy code. Topics include: How M. Scott Fo...
29: Kobiton & QASymphony - Josh Lieberman
Kobiton is a service to test mobile apps on real devices. QASymphony offers software testing and QA tools.Special Guest: Josh Lieberman.Sponsored By:Patreon Supporter...
28: Chaos Engineering & Experimentation at Netflix - Casey Rosenthal
Today we have an interview with Casey Rosenthal of Netflix. One of the people making sure Netflix runs smoothly is Casey Rosenthall. He is the manager for the Traffi...
27: Mahmoud Hashemi : unit, integration, and system testing
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 ...
26: pyresttest – Sam Van Oort
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 abou...
25: Selenium, pytest, Mozilla – Dave Hunt
Interview with Dave HuntdWe Cover:Selenium Driverpytestpytest plugins: pytest-seleniumpytest-htmlpytest-variablestoxDave Hunt’s “help wanted” list on githubMozillaAlso...
24: pytest - Raphael Aurich
pytest is an extremely popular test framework used by many projects and companies. In this episode, I interview Raphael Aurich (@hackebrot), a core contributor to both...
23: Lessons about testing and TDD from Kent Beck
Kent Beck's twitter profile says "Programmer, author, father, husband, goat farmer". But I know him best from his work on extreme programming, test first programming, ...
22: Converting Manual Tests to Automated Tests
How do you convert manual tests to automated tests? This episode looks at the differences between manual and automated tests and presents two strategies for convertin...
21: Terminology: test fixtures, subcutaneous testing, end to end testing, system testing
A listener requested that I start covering some terminology. I think it's a great idea.Covered in this episode:Test FixturesSubcutaneous TestingEnd to End Testing (Sy...
20: Talk Python To Me - Michael Kennedy
I talk with Michael about:Episodes of his show having to do with testing.His transition from employee to podcast host and online training entrepreneur.His Python train...
19: Python unittest - Robert Collins
Interview with Robert Collins, current core maintainer of Python's unittest module.Some of the topics coveredHow did Robert become the maintainer of unittest?unittest2...
18: Testing in Startups and Hiring Software Engineers - Joe Stump
In this episode, I interview with Joe Stump, cofounder of Sprintly (https://sprint.ly), to give the startup perspective to development and testing.Joe has spent his ca...
17: The Travis Foundation - Laura Gaetano
The Travis Foundation. Interview with Laura GaetanoLinks and things we talked about:Travis FoundationOpen Source GrantsThe Foundation's support of Katrina Owen from ex...
16: Welcome to Test and Code
This is a small episode. I'm changing the name from the "Python Test Podcast" to "Test & Code". I just want to discuss the reasons behind this change, and take a pee...
15: Lean Software Development
An introduction to Lean Software Development This is a quick intro to the concepts of Lean Software Development. I'm starting a journey of trying to figure out how t...
14: Continuous Integration with Travis CI – Josh Kalderimis
Interview with Josh Kalderimis from Travis CI. Josh is a co-founder and Chief Post-It Officer at Travis CI. Topics What is Continuous Integration, CI What is Trav...
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...
12: Coverage.py with Ned Batchelder
In this episode I interview Ned Batchelder. I know that coverage.py is very important to a lot of people to understand how much of their code is being covered by thei...
11: pytest assert magic
How pytest, unittest, and nose deal with assertions. The job of the test framework to tell developers how and why their tests failed is a difficult job. In this episo...
10: Test Case Design using Given-When-Then from BDD
Given-When-Then is borrowed from BDD and is my favorite structure for test case design. It doesn’t matter if you are using pytest, unittest, nose, or something comple...
9: Harry Percival : Testing Web Apps with Python, Selenium, Django
Intro to Harry Percival, his background and story of how he got into TDD and ended up writing a bookComparing using unittest and pytest with applicability to testing d...
8: Agile vs Agility : Agile Is Dead (Long Live Agility)
In today's podcast, I dodge the question of "What do you think of Agile?" by reading an essay from Dave Thomas
7: The Waterfall Model and “Managing the Development of Large Software Systems”
The waterfall model has been used and modified and changed and rebelled against since before I started programming. Waterfall such an important character in the story ...
6: Writing software is like nothing else
My experience with writing software comes from my experience: where I grew up, what eras I lived through, what my economical and geographical experiences have been, wh...
5: Test Classes: No OO experience required
Setup and Teardown Benefits of Test Fixtures code reuse cleanup of resources errors vs failures focusing your thinking on what you are testing and what you are not ...
4: Test Fixtures: Setup, Teardown, and so much more
Setup and Teardown Benefits of Test Fixtures code reuse cleanup of resources errors vs failures focusing your thinking on what you are testing and what you are not ...
3: Why test?
Answering a listener question. Why testing? What are the benefits? Why automated testing over manual testing? Why test first? Why do automated testing during develo...
2: Pytest vs Unittest vs Nose
I list my requirements for a framework and discuss how Pytest, Unittest, and Nose measure up to those requirements. Mentioned: pytest unittest nose delayed assert p...