Test & Code

12: Coverage.py with Ned Batchelder

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In this episode I interview Ned Batchelder.

I know that coverage.py is very important to a lot of people to understand how much of their code is being covered by their test suites.

Since I'm far from an expert on coverage, I asked Ned to discuss it on the show.

I'm also quite a fan of Ned's 2014 PyCon talk "Getting Started Testing", so I definitely asked him about that.

We also discuss edX, Python user groups, PyCon talks, and more.

Some of what's covered (pun intended) in this episode:

  • coverage.py
    • types of coverage
      • Line coverage
      • branch coverage
      • Behavior coverage
      • Data coverage
      • How Ned became the owner of coverage.py
      • Running tests from coverage.py vs running coverage from test runner.
      • edX
        • what is it
        • what Ned's role is
        • Ned's blog
        • Ned's PyCon 2014 talk "Getting Started Testing"
          • Teaching testing and the difficulty of the classes being part of unittest
          • fixtures package
          • some of the difficulties of teaching unittest because of it's class based system.
          • the history of classes in unittest coming from java's jUnit implementation
          • Boston's Python Group
          • PyCon in Portland
          • Ned to do a talk here "Machete mode debugging".
          • Practicing PyCon talks at local group meetings.
          • At the very least, practice it in front of a live audience.

            • Links:

            • Ned Batchelder
            • Coverage
            • Coverage documentation
            • django-nose
            • pytest-django
            • edX
            • open edX
            • Boston Python User Group
            • Portland Python User Group - I need to go to these
            • PyCon 2016 - Planning on attending, it's in Portland. Yay!
            • Getting Started Testing - Ned's 2014 Pycon talk

              • Support Test & Code - Software Testing, Development, Python

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