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Charlie Marsh and team are using Rust to make Python tooling faster.
Since uv is the newest tool, there's quite a bit of the discussion diving into uv...
Software engineers that move into leadership roles have a struggle between learning leadership skills, maintaining technical skills, and learning new leadership and technical skills.
Matt Makai went from individual contributor to developer relations to leadership in devrel.
We discuss how to stay technical, as well as dive into some results of his studies in how companies use developer relationship channels...
If you haven't tried running automated tests, especially with pytest, in VS Code recently, you should take another look.
The Python for VS Code interface for testing, especially for pytest, has changed recently.
On this episode we discuss the change with the software engineer working on the pytest changes, Eleanor Boyd, and the product manager, Courtney Webster...
If a test fails in a test suite, I'm going to want to re-run the test. I may even want to re-run a test, or a subset of the suite, a bunch of times.
There are a few pytest plugins that help with this:
We talk about each of these in this episode.
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In 2002, Kent Beck released a book called "Test Driven Development by Example".
In December of 2023, Kent wrote an article called "Canon TDD".
With Kent's permission, this episode contains the full content of the article.
Brian's commentary is saved for a followup episode...
We want to be able to run tests in a suite, and debug them in isolation, and have the behavior be the same.
If the behavior is different in isolation vs in a suite, it's a nightmare to debug...
Test Driven Development. Red, Green, Refactor.
This episode is to talk about this with a an example.
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How do you test the argument parsing bit of an application that uses argparse?
This episode covers:
Why on earth would you want to write a test with no assert statements?
After all, aren't assert statements how you decide wether a test passes or fails?
In this episode, we walk through a handful of useful examples of test code without asserts.
We also talk about how these types of tests are a great way to dip your toe into testing.
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