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, how to bring the value back, and where testing fits into all of this. How to build the…

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 pyramid, TDD, unit testing, system testing, and balancing test effort. the Testing Pyramid the…

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 Ford got into forming a company that works on legacy code. Technical debt Process debt…

Kobiton is a service to test mobile apps on real devices. QASymphony offers software testing and QA tools.Special Guest: Josh Lieberman.Sponsored By:Test & Code Patreon Supporters: Thank you to Patreon Supporters

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 Traffic, Intuition, and Chaos teams at Netflix. He's got a great perspective on quality and…

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 testing variants in software development. What is the difference between a unit test, an…

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 about testing REST APIs. There were answers such as pytest + requests, of course, but there was…

Interview with Dave Hunt @davehunt82. We Cover: Selenium Driver pytest pytest plugins: pytest-selenium pytest-html pytest-variables tox Dave Hunt’s “help wanted” list on github Mozilla Also: fixtures xfail CI and xfail and html reports CI and capturing…

pytest is an extremely popular test framework used by many projects and companies. In this episode, I interview Raphael Pierzina (@hackebrot), a core contributor to both pytest and cookiecutter. We discuss how Raphael got involved with both projects, his…

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, and test driven development. He's the one. The reason you know about TDD is because of…

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 converting manual to automated.Sponsored By:Test & Code Patreon Supporters: Thank you to Patreon…

A listener requested that I start covering some terminology. I think it's a great idea. Covered in this episode: Test Fixtures Subcutaneous Testing End to End Testing (System Testing) I also discuss: A book rewrite Progress on transcripts A story from the…

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 training courses. The Pyramid Web framework. Courses by Michael Explore Python Jumpstart…

Interview with Robert Collins, current core maintainer of Python's unittest module. Some of the topics covered How did Robert become the maintainer of unittest? unittest2 as a rolling backport of unittest test and class parametrization with subtest and…

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 career in startups. He's also been involved with hiring and talent acquisition for…

The Travis Foundation. Interview with Laura Gaetano Links and things we talked about: Travis Foundation Open Source Grants The Foundation's support of Katrina Owen from exercism.io Exercism.io Rails Girls summer of code Diversity Tickets Conference…

This is a small episode. I'm changing the name from the "Python Test Podcast" to "Test & Code". I just want to discuss the reasons behind this change, and take a peek at what's coming up in the future for this podcast. Links The Waterfall Model and…

An introduction to Lean Software Development This is a quick intro to the concepts of Lean Software Development. I'm starting a journey of trying to figure out how to apply lean principles to software development in the context of 2016/2017. Links Lean…

Interview with Josh Kalderimis from Travis CI. Josh is a co-founder and Chief Post-It Officer at Travis CI. Topics What is Continuous Integration, CI What is Travis CI Some history of the company travis-ci.org vs travis-ci.com and merging the two…

Testing apps that use requests without using mock. Interview with Ian Cordasco (@sigmavirus24) Topics: Betamax - python library for replaying requests interactions for use in testing. requests github3.py Pycon 2015 talk: Ian Cordasco - Cutting Off the…

In this episode I interview Ned Batchelder. I know that coverage.py is very important to a lot of people to understand how much of their code is being covered by their test suites. Since I'm far from an expert on coverage, I asked Ned to discuss it on the…

How pytest, unittest, and nose deal with assertions. The job of the test framework to tell developers how and why their tests failed is a difficult job. In this episode I talk about assert helper functions and the 3 methods pytest uses to get around…

Given-When-Then is borrowed from BDD and is my favorite structure for test case design. It doesn’t matter if you are using pytest, unittest, nose, or something completely different, this episode will help you write better tests. The Given-When-Then…

Intro to Harry Percival, his background and story of how he got into TDD and ended up writing a book Comparing using unittest and pytest with applicability to testing django projects. Functional end to end testing with selenium. The django test client for…

In today's podcast, I dodge the question of "What do you think of Agile?" by reading an essay from Dave Thomas

The waterfall model has been used and modified and changed and rebelled against since before I started programming. Waterfall such an important character in the story of software development that we should get to know it a better.

My experience with writing software comes from my experience: where I grew up, what eras I lived through, what my economical and geographical experiences have been, when I learned to code, and what projects I've worked on.Sponsored By:Test & Code Patreon…

Setup and Teardown Benefits of Test Fixtures code reuse cleanup of resources errors vs failures focusing your thinking on what you are testing and what you are not scoping for efficiency Brief look at pytest named fixtures References pytest fixtures…

Setup and Teardown Benefits of Test Fixtures code reuse cleanup of resources errors vs failures focusing your thinking on what you are testing and what you are not scoping for efficiency Brief look at pytest named fixtures References pytest fixtures…

Answering a listener question. Why testing? What are the benefits? Why automated testing over manual testing? Why test first? Why do automated testing during development? Why test to the user level API? After describing my ideal test strategy and project,…

I list my requirements for a framework and discuss how Pytest, Unittest, and Nose measure up to those requirements. Mentioned: pytest unittest nose delayed assert pytest-expect doctest I did the audio processing differently for this episode. Please let me…

Upcoming topic categories: Mechanics of testing testing concepts and strategies Software development methodologies Software development skills and best practices Software testing in education and programming instruction Using Python test frameworks for…