Test & Code

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22: Converting Manual Tests to Automated Tests Sep 24, 2016

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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.

21: Terminology: test fixtures, subcutaneous testing, end to end testing, system testing Aug 31, 2016

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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 slack channel

20: Talk Python To Me host Michael Kennedy Jul 29, 2016

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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

Testing related podcast Episodes from Talk Python To Me:

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20: Talk Python To Me - Michael Kennedy Jul 29, 2016

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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

Testing related podcast Episodes from Talk Python To Me:

19: Python unittest with Robert Collins Jun 15, 2016

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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 testscenarios
Which extension to unittest most closely resembles Pytest fixtures?
Comparing Pytest and unittest
Will unittest ever get assert rewriting?
Future changes to unittest

I've been re-studying unittest recently and I mostly wanted to ask Robert a bunch of clarifying questions.

This is an intermediate to advanced discussion of unittest.
Many great features of unittest go by quickly in this talk.
Please let me know if there's something you'd like me to cover in more depth as a blog post or a future episode.

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If you like Test & Code, I think you'll also like Python People

Python People is a new podcast about getting to know the people who make Python and our community awesome.
Be sure to check out pythonpeople.fm.

19: Python unittest - Robert Collins Jun 15, 2016

Show notes

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 testscenarios
Which extension to unittest most closely resembles Pytest fixtures?
Comparing Pytest and unittest
Will unittest ever get assert rewriting?
Future changes to unittest

I've been re-studying unittest recently and I mostly wanted to ask Robert a bunch of clarifying questions.

Links

18: Testing in Startups and Hiring Software Engineers with Joe Stump Apr 20, 2016

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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 several startups.

We talk about testing, continuous integration, code reviews, deployment, tolerance to defects, and how some of those differ between large companies and small companies and startups.

Then we get into hiring. Specifically, finding and evaluating good engineers, and then getting them to be interested in working for you.

If you ever want to grow your team size, you need to listen to this.

Sponsored By:

If you like Test & Code, I think you'll also like Python People

Python People is a new podcast about getting to know the people who make Python and our community awesome.
Be sure to check out pythonpeople.fm.

18: Testing in Startups and Hiring Software Engineers - Joe Stump Apr 19, 2016

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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 several startups.

We talk about testing, continuous integration, code reviews, deployment, tolerance to defects, and how some of those differ between large companies and small companies and startups.

Then we get into hiring. Specifically, finding and evaluating good engineers, and then getting them to be interested in working for you.

If you ever want to grow your team size, you need to listen to this.

17: The Travis Foundation Apr 11, 2016

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The Travis Foundation. Interview with Laura Gaetano

Links and things we talked about: