Brian Okken
Software Engineer, also on Python Bytes and Python People podcasts
Appears in 236 Episodes
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 engineer...
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 test ...
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 more ...
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...
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 Bergemann...
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, including ...
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 Lay...
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 di...
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.Bu...
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...