Python Test

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 for all kinds of tasks.
And it's great to be able to share small projects with others on your team, in your company, or with the world.

When you want to take a script from "just a script" to maintainable package, there are a few steps, but none of it's hard...

Some information about software testing is just wrong.
I'm not talking about opinions. I have lots of opinions and they differ from other peoples opinions. I'm talking about misinformation and old information that is no longer applicable.

I've ran across a few lateley that I want to address.

All of the following are wrong:

1. Integrated tests can't work. I can prove it with wacky math.
2. Tests have to be blazing fast or they won't get run...

Roadblocks to writing tests, and what to do about it.

Some developers either don't write tests, or don't like writing tests.
Why not? I love writing tests.
In this episode we examine lots of roadblocks to testing, and start coming up with solutions for these.

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Creating maintainable test suites for complex systems. The episode describes some complexities involved with hardware testing, then shares techniques for shifting complexity out of the test cases...

Test Driven Development, TDD, can be intimidating to try.
Why is that? And how can we make it less scary?
That's what this episode is about.

Chris May is a Python developer and the co-founder of PyRVA, the Richmond Virginia Python group.
In this episode, Chris shares his experience with adding testing and TDD to his work flow.

I really enjoyed talking with Chris, and I think his story will help lots of people overcome testing anxiety...

Software testing, if done right, is done all the time, throughout the whole life of a software project. This is different than the verification and validation of a classical model of QA teams. It's more of a collaborative model that actually tries to help get great software out the door faster and iterate quicker.

One of the people at the forefront of this push is Alan Page...

In this episode, I talk with Derrick Mar, CTO and co-founder of Pathrise.
This is the episode you need to listen to to get ready for software interviews.

• We discuss four aspects of technical interviews that interviewers are looking for:

  • communication
  • problem solving
  • coding
  • verification

• How to practice for the interview.

• Techniques for synchronizing with interviewer and asking for hints...

This is a "Yay! It's PyCon 2019" episode.
PyCon is very important to me.
But it's kinda hard to put a finger on why.
So I figured I'd ask more people to help explain why it's important.
I ask a few simple questions to people about Python and PyCon and get some great insights into both the language popularity and the special place this conference holds to many people...

Some typical technical interview practices can be harmful and get in the way of hiring great people. April Wensel offers advice to help fix the technical interview process...

Nina Zakharenko gives some great advice about giving tech talks.
We talk about a blog series that Nina wrote called "The Ultimate Guide To Memorable Tech Talks". This episode is full of great help and encouragement for your own public speaking adventures...