Python Test

Exploratory testing is absolutely an essential part of a testing strategy.
 This episode discusses what exploratory testing is, its benefits, and how it fits within a framework of relying on automated tests for most of our testing.

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"There are five practical reasons that we write tests. Whether we realize it or not, our personal testing philosophy is based on how we judge the relative importance of these reasons." - Sarah Mei

This episode discusses the factors...

A recent Twitter thread by Simon Willison reminded me that I've been meaning to do an episode on the testing trophy.
 This discussion is about the distinction between unit and integration tests, what those terms mean, and where we should spend our testing time.

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Links:

• Simon Willison's Twitter Thread
• The Testing Trophy and Testing Classifications — Kent C Dodds
• Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration...

The idea of having a software as a service product sound great, doesn't it?

 Solve a problem with software. Have a nice looking landing page and website. Get paying customers.

 Eventually have it make enough revenue so you can turn it into your primary source of income. 

There's a lot of software talent out there. We could solve lots of problems. 
 But going from idea to product to first customer is non-trivial. 
 Especially as a side hustle...

• Who should do QA?
• How does that change with different projects and teams?
• What does "doing QA" mean, anyway?

Answering these questions are the goals of this episode.

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Links:

• Test Automation - Who Should be Involved? | Thoughtworks

In this episode, I talk with Paul Ganssle about a fun workflow that he calls pseudo-TDD.
 Pseudo-TDD is a way to keep your commit history clean and your tests passing with each commit.
 This workflow includes using pytest xfail and some semi-advanced version control features...

In the preface of "Python Testing with pytest" I list some reasons to use pytest, under a section called "why pytest?". Someone asked me recently, a different but related question "why NOT unittest?".

unittest is an xUnit style framework. For me, xUnit style frameworks are fatally flawed for software testing...

A prototype is a a preliminary model of something, from which other forms are developed or copied.
 In software, we think of prototypes as early things, or a proof of concept.
 We don't often think of prototyping during daily software development or maintenance. I think we should.
 This episode is about growing better designed software with the help of a prototype mindset...

Paul Ganssle, is a software developer at Google, core Python dev, and open source maintainer for many projects, has some thoughts about pytest's xfail.
 He was an early skeptic of using xfail, and is now an proponent of the feature.
 In this episode, we talk about some open source workflows that are possible because of xfail. 

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Special Guest: Paul Ganssle...

Prayson Daniel, a principle data scientist, discusses testing machine learning pipelines with pytest.

Prayson is using pytest for some pretty cool stuff, including:

• unit tests, of course
• testing pipeline stages
• counterfactual testing
• performance testing

All with pytest. So cool.

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Special Guest: Prayson Daniel...