Test & Code

13: Ian Cordasco – Betamax

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Testing apps that use requests without using mock.

Interview with Ian Cordasco (@sigmavirus24)

Topics:

  • Betamax - python library for replaying requests interactions for use in testing.
  • requests
  • github3.py
  • Pycon 2015 talk: Ian Cordasco - Cutting Off the Internet: Testing Applications that Use Requests - PyCon 2015
  • Pytest and using Betamax with pytest fixtures
  • The utility (or uselessness) of teaching programming with Java (My own rant mainly)
  • Rackspace and Ian’s role at Rackspace and OpenStack
  • Python Code Quality Authority: flake8, pep8, mccabe, pylint, astroid, …
  • Static code analysis and what to use which tool when.
  • Raymond Hettinger - Beyond PEP 8 -- Best practices for beautiful intelligible code - PyCon 2015

    • Links:

    • Testing Python-Requests with Betamax
    • Cutting Off the Internet: Testing Applications that Use Requests - PyCon 2015
    • github3.py
    • requests
    • Rackspace
    • Openstack
    • Python Code Quality Authority and documentation
    • GitLab
    • Raymond Hettinger - Beyond PEP 8 -- Best practices for beautiful intelligible code - PyCon 2015

      • Other Betamax resources:

      • Betamaxing Boto3
      • Using Betamax with pytest fixtures
      • Isolated @memoize

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