Test & Code

Hackathons have been spreading around the world; many at university campuses. Major League Hacking, MLH, has been encouraging and helping hackathons.Hacking can be thought of as tinkering. Taking thin...

5 Okt 202026min

Using mock objects during testing in Python.Anna-Lena joins the podcast to teach us about mocks and using unittest.mock objects during testing. We discuss:the different styles of using mockspros and c...

28 Sep 202038min

Some people avoid writing tests. Some drudge through it painfully. There is a better way. In this episode, I'm going to share some advice from Luke Plant on how to "Test Smarter, Not Harder".Links:Tes...

21 Sep 20207min

virtualenv supports six shells: bash, csh, fish, xonsh, cmd, posh. Each handles prompts slightly differently. Although the virtualenv custom prompt behavior should be the same across shells, Brian Ski...

13 Sep 202033min

I asked people on twitter to fill in "How do I test _____?" to find out what people want to know how to test. Lots of responses. David Lord agreed to answer them with me. In the process, we come up wi...

7 Sep 202040min

Software tests should be order independent. That means you should be able to run them in any order or run them in isolation and get the same result.However, system state often gets in the way and orde...

28 Aug 202015min

Many people have been working from home now that are not used to working from home. Or at least are working from home more than they ever did before. That's definitely true for me. Even though I've be...

24 Aug 202040min

Researches and others using data science and software need to follow solid software engineering practices. This is a message that Joel Grus has been promoting for some time.Joel joins the show this we...

17 Aug 202031min