Brian Okken
Software Engineer, also on Python Bytes and Python People podcasts
Appears in 236 Episodes
37: What tests to write first
This episode starts down the path of test strategy with the first tests to write in either a legacy system or a project just getting off it's feet. We cover: My app...
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...