Brian Okken
Software Engineer, also on Python Bytes and Python People podcasts
Appears in 229 Episodes
139: Test Automation: Shifting Testing Throughout the Software Lifecycle - Nalin Parbhu
Talking with Nalin Parbhu about the software evolution towards more test automation and the creation of Infuse and useMango. We talk a software development and "shif...
138: Mutation Testing in Python with mutmut - Anders Hovmöller
Your test suite tells you about the quality of your code under test. Mutation testing is a way to tell you about the quality of your test suite. Anders Hovmöller wrote...
137: Become an Author - Matt Harrison interviews Brian Okken
Matt Harrison, author of many Python books, is putting together a course, Effective Book Authoring, to help other people write and publish books. As part of this cours...
136: Wearable Technology - Sophy Wong
Wearable technology is not just smart consumer devices like watches and activity trackers. Wearable tech also includes one off projects by designers, makers, and hac...
135: Speeding up Django Test Suites - Adam Johnson
All test suites start fast. But as you grow your set of tests, each test adds a little bit of time to the suite. What can you do about it to keep test suites fast? S...
134: Business Outcomes and Software Development - Benjamin Harding
Within software projects, there are lots of metrics we could measure. But which ones really matter. Instead of a list, Benjamin Harding shares with us a way of thinkin...
133: Major League Hacking - Jon Gottfried
Hackathons have been spreading around the world; many at university campuses. Major League Hacking, MLH, has been encouraging and helping hackathons. Hacking can be t...
132: mocking in Python - Anna-Lena Popkes
Using mock objects during testing in Python. Anna-Lena joins the podcast to teach us about mocks and using unittest.mock objects during testing. We discuss: the d...
131: Test Smarter, Not Harder
Some people avoid writing tests. Some drudge through it painfully. There is a better way. In this episode, I'm going to share some advice from Luke Plant on how to "Te...
130: virtualenv activation prompt consistency across shells - an open source dev and test adventure - Brian Skinn
virtualenv supports six shells: bash, csh, fish, xonsh, cmd, posh. Each handles prompts slightly differently. Although the virtualenv custom prompt behavior should be ...
129: How to Test Anything - David Lord
I asked people on twitter to fill in "How do I test _____?" to find out what people want to know how to test. Lots of responses. David Lord agreed to answer them with ...
128: pytest-randomly - Adam Johnson
Software tests should be order independent. That means you should be able to run them in any order or run them in isolation and get the same result. However, system s...
127: WFH, WTF? - Tips and Tricks for Working From Home - Reuven Lerner & Julian Sequeira
Many people have been working from home now that are not used to working from home. Or at least are working from home more than they ever did before. That's definitely...
126: Data Science and Software Engineering Practices ( and Fizz Buzz ) - Joel Grus
Researches and others using data science and software need to follow solid software engineering practices. This is a message that Joel Grus has been promoting for some...
125: pytest 6 - Anthony Sottile
pytest 6 is out. Specifically, 6.0.1, as of July 31. And there's lots to be excited about. Anthony Sottile joins the show to discuss features, improvements, documentat...
124: pip dependency resolver changes
pip is the package installer for Python. Often, when you run pip, especially the first time in a new virtual environment, you will see something like: WARNING: Y...
123: GitHub Actions - Tania Allard
Lots of Python projects are starting to use GitHub Actions for Continous Integration & Deployment (CI/CD), as well as other workflows. Tania Allard, a Senior Cloud De...
122: Better Resumes for Software Engineers - Randall Kanna
A great resume is key to landing a great software job. There's no surprise there. But so many people make mistakes on their resume that can very easily be fixed. Rand...
121: Industrial 3D Printing & Python, Finite State Machines, and Simulating Hardware - Len Wanger
Len Wanger works on industrial 3D printers. And I was pleased to find out that there's a bunch of Python in those printers as well. In this episode we talk about: ...
120: FastAPI & Typer - Sebastián Ramírez
FastAPI is a modern, fast (high-performance), web framework for building APIs with Python based on standard Python type hints. Typer is a library for building CLI appl...
119: Editable Python Installs, Packaging Standardization, and pyproject.toml - Brett Cannon
There's stuff going on in Python packaging and pyproject.toml. Brett and I talk about some upcoming work on Python packaging, such as: editable installs the need fo...
118: Code Coverage and 100% Coverage
Code Coverage or Test Coverage is a way to measure what lines of code and branches in your code that are utilized during testing. Coverage tools are an important part...
117: Python extension for VS Code - Brett Cannon
The Python extension for VS Code is most downloaded extension for VS Code. Brett Cannon is the manager for the distributed development team of the Python extension fo...
116: 15 amazing pytest plugins - Michael Kennedy
pytest plugins are an amazing way to supercharge your test suites, leveraging great solutions from people solving test problems all over the world. In this episode Mic...
115: Catching up with Nina Zakharenko
One of the great things about attending in person coding conferences, such as PyCon, is the hallway track, where you can catch up with people you haven't seen for poss...
114: The Python Software Foundation (PSF) Board Elections - Ewa Jodlowska / Christopher Neugebauer
"The mission of the Python Software Foundation is to promote, protect, and advance the Python programming language, and to support and facilitate the growth of a diver...
113: Technical Debt - James Smith
Technical debt has to be dealt with on a regular basis to have a healthy product and development team. The impacts of technical debt include emotional drain on engine...
112: Six Principles of Readable Tests - David Seddon
"Code is read much more often than it is written." - Guido van Rossum This is true for both production code and test code. When you are trying to understand why a tes...
111: Subtests in Python with unittest and pytest - Paul Ganssle
In both unittest and pytest, when a test function hits a failing assert, the test stops and is marked as a failed test. What if you want to keep going, and check mor...
110: Testing Django - from unittest to pytest - Adam Parkin
Django supports testing out of the box with some cool extensions to unittest. However, many people are using pytest for their Django testing, mostly using the pytest-d...