Test & Code

185: Python + Django + Rich + Testing == Awesome

May 11th, 2022  |  20 mins 55 secs

django, python, rich, unittest

Django has a handful of console commands to help manage and develop sites.
django-rich adds color and nice formatting.
In a recent release, django-rich also add nice colorized tracebacks to the Django test runner.

181: Boost Your Django DX - Adam Johnson

February 28th, 2022  |  27 mins 32 secs

developer experience, django

We talk with Adam Johnson about his new book, "Boost Your Django DX".

154: Don't Mock your Database - Jeff Triplett

May 21st, 2021  |  31 mins 39 secs

databases, django, mocking, pytest, python, software testing

You need tests for your web app. And it has a database. What do you do with the database during testing? Should you use the real thing? or mock it? Jeff Triplett says don't mock it.

In this episode, we talk with Jeff about testing web applications, specifically Django apps, and of course talk about the downsides of database mocking.

135: Speeding up Django Test Suites - Adam Johnson

October 20th, 2020  |  23 mins 34 secs

django, software testing

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?
Some things, like parallelization, are applicable to many domains.
What about, for instance, Django applications?
Well, Adam Johnson has thought about it a lot, and is here to tell us how we can speed up our Django test suites.

110: Testing Django - from unittest to pytest - Adam Parkin

April 25th, 2020  |  24 mins 56 secs

django, pytest, software testing, unittest

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-django plugin.

Adam Parkin, who is known online as CodependentCodr, joins us to talk about migrating an existing Django project from unittest to pytest. Adam tells us just how easy this is.

103: Django - Lacey Williams Henschel

February 29th, 2020  |  27 mins 17 secs

django, software testing, web frameworks

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 Django community, learning Django, software testing, so much more.

83: PyBites Code Challenges behind the scenes - Bob Belderbos

August 16th, 2019  |  24 mins 3 secs

django, pytest, python, selenium, web applications

What's the tech stack behind the PyBites Code Challenges platform?

9: Harry Percival : Testing Web Apps with Python, Selenium, Django

January 18th, 2016  |  45 mins 14 secs

django, functional testing, pytest, tdd, unittest

I interview Harry Percival, author of "Test-Driven Development with Python".