Brian Okken
Software Engineer, also on Python Bytes and Python People podcasts
Appears in 229 Episodes
109: Testing in Financial Services - Eric Bergemann
Financial services have their own unique testing development challenges. But they also have lots of the same challenges as many other software projects. Eric Bergema...
108: PySpark - Jonathan Rioux
Apache Spark is a unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing. PySpark blends the powerful Spark big data processing engine with the Python programming la...
107: Property Based Testing in Python with Hypothesis - Alexander Hultnér
Hypothesis is the Python tool used for property based testing. Hypothesis claims to combine "human understanding of your problem domain with machine intelligence to im...
106: Visual Testing : How IDEs can make software testing easier - Paul Everitt
IDEs can help people with automated testing. In this episode, Paul Everitt and Brian discuss ways IDEs can encourage testing and make it easier for everyone, includin...
105: TAP: Test Anything Protocol - Matt Layman
The Test Anything Protocol, or TAP, is a way to record test results in a language agnostic way, predates XML by about 10 years, and is still alive and kicking. Matt L...
104: Top 28 pytest plugins - Anthony Sottile
pytest is awesome by itself. pytest + plugins is even better. In this episode, Anthony Sottile and Brian Okken discuss the top 28 pytest plugins. Some of the plugins...
103: Django - Lacey Williams Henschel
Django is without a doubt one of the most used web frameworks for Python. Lacey Williams Henschel is a Django consultant and has joined me to talk about Django, the Dj...
102: Cosmic Python, TDD, testing and external dependencies - Harry Percival
Harry Percival has completed his second book, "Architecture Patterns with Python". So of course we talk about the book, also known as "Cosmic Python". We also discuss ...
101: Application Security - Anthony Shaw
Application security is best designed into a system from the start. Anthony Shaw is doing something about it by creating an editor plugin that actually helps you write...
100: A/B Testing - Leemay Nassery
Let's say you have a web application and you want to make some changes to improve it. You may want to A/B test it first to make sure you are really improving things. ...
99: Software Maintenance and Chess
I play a form of group chess that has some interesting analogies to software development and maintenance of existing systems. This episode explains group chess and exp...
98: pytest-testmon - selects tests affected by changed files and methods - Tibor Arpas
pytest-testmon is a pytest plugin which selects and executes only tests you need to run. It does this by collecting dependencies between tests and all executed code (i...
97: 2019 Retrospective, 2020 Plans, and an amazing decade
This episode is not just a look back on 2019, and a look forward to 2020. Also, 2019 is the end of an amazingly transofrmative decade for me, so I'm going to discuss t...
96: Azure Pipelines - Thomas Eckert
Pipelines are used a lot in software projects to automated much of the work around build, test, deployment and more. Thomas Eckert talks with me about pipelines, speci...
95: Data Science Pipeline Testing with Great Expectations - Abe Gong
Data science and machine learning are affecting more of our lives every day. Decisions based on data science and machine learning are heavily dependent on the quality ...
94: The real 11 reasons I don't hire you - Charity Majors
You've applied for a job, maybe lots of jobs. Depending on the company, you've gotta get through: a resume review a coding challange a phone screen maybe another cod...
93: Software Testing, Book Writing, Teaching, Public Speaking, and PyCarolinas - Andy Knight
Andy Knight is the Automation Panda. Andy Knight is passionate about software testing, and shares his passion through public speaking, writing on automationpanda.com...
92: 9 Steps to Crater Quality & Destroy Customer Satisfaction - Cristian Medina
Cristian Medina wrote an article recently called "Test Engineering Anti-Patterns: Destroy Your Customer Satisfaction and Crater Your Quality By Using These 9 Easy Orga...
91: Python 3.8 - there's a lot more new than most people are talking about
Python 3.8.0 final is live and ready to download. On todays episode, we're going to run through what's new, picking out the bits that I think are the most interesting...
90: Dynamic Scope Fixtures in pytest 5.2 - Anthony Sottile
pytest 5.2 was just released, and with it, a cool fun feature called dynamic scope fixtures. Anthony Sottile so tilly is one of the pytest core developers, so I though...
89: Improving Programming Education - Nicholas Tollervey
Nicholas Tollervey is working toward better ways of teaching programming. His projects include the Mu Editor, PyperCard, and CodeGrades. Many of us talk about problems...
88: Error Monitoring, Crash Reporting, Performance Monitoring - JD Trask
Tools like error monitoring, crash reporting, and performance monitoring are tools to help you create a better user experience and are fast becoming crucial tools for ...
87: Paths to Parametrization - from one test to many
There's a cool feature of pytest called parametrization. It's totally one of the superpowers of pytest. It's actually a handful of features, and there are a few ways ...
86: Teaching testing best practices with 4 testing maxims - Josh Peak
You've incorporated software testing into your coding practices and know from experience that it helps you get your stuff done faster with less headache. Awesome. No...
85: Speed Up Test Suites - Niklas Meinzer
Good software testing strategy is one of the best ways to save developer time and shorten software development delivery cycle time. Software test suites grow from sma...
84: CircuitPython - Scott Shawcroft
Adafruit enables beginners to make amazing hardware/software projects. With CircuitPython, these projects can now use Python. The combination of Python's ease of use ...
83: PyBites Code Challenges behind the scenes - Bob Belderbos
Bob Belderbos and Julian Sequeira started PyBites a few years ago. They started doing code challanges along with people around the world and writing about it. Then c...
82: pytest - favorite features since 3.0 - Anthony Sottile
Anthony Sottile is a pytest core contributor, as well as a maintainer and contributor to many other projects. In this episode, Anthony shares some of the super cool f...
81: TDD with flit
In the last episode, we talked about going from script to supported package. I worked on a project called subark and did the packaging with flit. Today's episode is ...
80: From Python script to Maintainable Package
This episode is a story about packaging, and flit, tox, pytest, and coverage. And an alternate solution to "using the src". Python makes it easy to build simple tools...