Test & Code

195: What would you change about pytest?

March 8th, 2023  |  57 mins 14 secs

Anthony Sottile and Brian discuss changes that would be cool for pytest, even unrealistic changes. These are changes we'd make to pytest if we didn't ahve to care about backwards compatibilty.

194: Test & Code Returns

March 5th, 2023  |  6 mins 3 secs

A brief discussion of why Test & Code has been off the air for a bit, and what to expect in upcoming episodes.

193: The Good Research Code Handbook - Patrick Mineault

August 30th, 2022  |  43 mins 13 secs

Patrick Mineault has written "The Good Research Code Handbook".
It will put you on the right path to writing better software.

192: Learn to code through game development with PursuedPyBear - Piper Thunstrom

August 6th, 2022  |  42 mins 27 secs

education, game development, game engine, python

PursuedPyBear, ppb, is a game framework great for learning, with goals of being fun, education friendly, an example of idiomatic Python, hardware library agnostic, and built on event driven and object oriented concepts.

191: Running your own site for fun and absolutely no profit whatsoever - Brian Wisti

July 1st, 2022  |  46 mins 3 secs

blogging, education, personal site

Having a personal site is a great playground for learning tons of skills. Brian Wisti discusses the benefits of running a his own blog over the years.

190: Testing PyPy - Carl Friedrich Bolz-Tereick

June 21st, 2022  |  51 mins 17 secs

application testing, interpreter testing, performance testing, python

PyPy is a fast, compliant alternative implementation of Python.
cPython is implemented in C. PyPy is implemented in Python.
What does that mean? And how do you test something as huge as an alternative implementation of Python?

189: attrs and dataclasses - Hynek Schlawack

June 7th, 2022  |  32 mins 23 secs

attrs, dataclasses, python

Using classes in Python is a lot easier today thanks to attrs and dataclasses.
Hynek joins the show today to discuss some history of attrs and dataclasses, and some differences.

188: Python's Rich, Textual, and Textualize - Innovating the CLI

May 17th, 2022  |  35 mins 36 secs

cli, css, rich, textualize, web

Will McGugan has brought a lot of color to CLIs within Python due to Rich.
Then Textual started rethinking full command line applications, including layout with CSS.
And now Textualize, a new startup, is bringing CLI apps to the web.

187: Teaching Web Development, including Front End Testing

May 13th, 2022  |  39 mins 48 secs

code quality, css, front end testing, html, linting, validation

When you are teaching someone web development skills, when is the right time to start teaching code quality and testing practices?
Karl Stolley believes it's never too early.

186: Developer and Team Productivity

May 12th, 2022  |  51 mins 7 secs

git metrics, productivity

Being productive is obviously a good thing. Can we measure it? Should we measure it?
Nick Hodges joins the show to discuss the good and the bad of developer and team productivity, including how we can improve productivity.

185: Python + Django + Rich + Testing == Awesome

May 11th, 2022  |  20 mins 55 secs

django, python, rich, unittest

Django has a handful of console commands to help manage and develop sites.
django-rich adds color and nice formatting.
In a recent release, django-rich also add nice colorized tracebacks to the Django test runner.

184: Twisted and Testing Event Driven / Asynchronous Applications - Glyph

March 21st, 2022  |  41 mins 16 secs

Twisted has been supporting asynchronous / event driven applications way before asyncio.
Twisted, and Glyph, have also been encouraging automated tests for a very long time.

For testing asynchronous or event driven systems, Twisted uses a technique that should be usable by other applications, even those using asyncio or other event driven architectures.

183: Managing Software Teams - Ryan Cheley

March 16th, 2022  |  47 mins 48 secs

managing software teams

Ryan Cheley joins me today to talk about some challenges of managing software teams, and how to handle them.
We end up talking about a lot of skills that are excellent for software engineers as well as managers.

182: An Unorthodox Technical Interview and Hiring Process - Nathan Aschbacher

March 8th, 2022  |  47 mins 50 secs

technical hiring, technical interview

Don't you just love technical interviews, with someone who just saw your resume or CV 5 minutes ago asking you to write some code on a whiteboard
probably code that has nothing to do with anything you've done before or anything you will do at the company.

No? Neither does Nathan Aschbacher.
So when he started building the team at his company, he decided to do things differently.

181: Boost Your Django DX - Adam Johnson

February 28th, 2022  |  27 mins 32 secs

developer experience, django

We talk with Adam Johnson about his new book, "Boost Your Django DX".

180: Lean TDD

February 21st, 2022  |  26 mins 5 secs

lean software development, lean tdd, tdd

Lean TDD is an attempt to reconcile some conflicting aspects of Test Driven Development and Lean Software Development.