Brian Okken
Software Engineer, also on Python Bytes and Python People podcasts
Appears in 236 Episodes
Being a Guest on a Podcast - Michael Kennedy
Michael Kennedy of Talk Python and Python Bytes fame joins Brian to talk about being a great guest and what to expect. Even if you have never wanted to be on a podca...
55: When 100% test coverage just isn't enough - Mahmoud Hashemi
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 tha...
54: Python 1994 - Paul Everitt
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'...
53: Seven Databases in Seven Weeks - Luc Perkins
Luc Perkins joins the show to talk about "Seven Databases in Seven Weeks: A guide to modern databases and the NoSQL movement." We discuss a bit about each database: ...
52: pyproject.toml : the future of Python packaging - Brett Cannon
Brett Cannon discusses the changes afoot in Python packaging as a result of PEP 517, PEP 518, starting with "How did we get here?" and "Where are we going?" Discussed...
51: Feature Testing
Andy Knight joins me in discussing the concept of feature testing. A feature tests is "a test verifying a service or library as the customer would use it, but within ...
50: Flaky Tests and How to Deal with Them
Anthony Shaw joins Brian to discuss flaky tests and flaky test suites. What are flaky tests? Is it the same as fragile tests? Why are they bad? How do we deal with t...
49: tox - Oliver Bestwalter
tox is a simple yet powerful tool that is used by many Python projects. tox is not just a tool to help you test a Python project against multiple versions of Python. ...
48: A GUI for pytest
The story of how I came to find a good user interface for running and debugging automated tests is interleaved with a multi-year effort of mine to have a test workflow...
47: Automation Panda - Andy Knight
Interview with Andy Knight, the Automation Panda. Selenium & WebDriver Headless Chrome Gherkin BDD Given When Then pytest-bdd PyCharm Writing Good Gherkin Overhead ...
46: Testing Hard To Test Applications - Anthony Shaw
How do you write tests for things that aren’t that easy to write tests for? That question is a possibly terrible summary of a question sent to me by a listener. And t...
45: David Heinemeier Hansson - Software Development and Testing, TDD, and exploratory QA
David Heinemeier Hansson is the creator of Ruby on Rails, founder & CTO at Basecamp (formerly 37signals). He's a best selling author, public speaker, and even a Le Man...
44: Mentoring - Nina Zakharenko
Nina Zakharenko is a cloud developer advocate at Microsoft focusing on Python. She's also an excellent public speaker. We talk about her experience with mentoring, bot...
Preparing for Technical Talks with Kelsey Hightower - bonus episode
After I had wrapped up the interview with Kelsey Hightower for episode 43, I asked him one last question. You see, I admire the his presentation style. So I asked hi...
43: Kelsey Hightower - End to End & Integration Testing
I first heard Kelsey speak during his 2017 PyCon keynote. He's an amazing speaker, and I knew right then I wanted to hear more about what he does and hear more of his ...
42: Using Automated Tests to Help Teach Python - Trey Hunner
This interview with Trey Hunner discusses his use of automated tests to help teach programming. Automated testing is a huge part of developing great software. But man...
41: Testing in DevOps and Agile - Anthony Shaw
We talk with Anthony Shaw about some of the testing problems facing both DevOps teams, and Agile teams. We also talk about his recent pull request accepted into pytest...
40: On Podcasting - Adam Clark
Adam is the host of The Gently Mad podcast, and teaches the steps in creating and growing a podcast in his course Irresistible Podcasting. He was one of the people wh...
39: Thorough software testing for critical features
Complete and exhaustive testing is not possible. Nor would it be fun, or maintainable, or a good use of your time. However, some functionality is important enough to ...
38: Prioritize software tests with RCRCRC
RCRCRC was developed by Karen Nicole Johnson. In this episode we discuss the mnemonic/heuristic and use it to prioritize tests for the cards application. Recent: ne...