Test & Code

By Brian OkkenTechnology Education How To

Test & Code episodes

August 13, 201845: David Heinemeier Hansson - Software Development and Testing, TDD, and exploratory QA
David Heinemeier Hansson is the creator of Ruby on Rails, founder & CTO at Basecamp (formerly 37signals). He's a best selling author, public speaker, and even a Le Mans class winning racing driver.
All of that, of course, is awesome. But that's not why I asked him on the show. In 2014, during a RailsConf keynote, he started a discussion about damage caused by TDD. This was followed by a few blog posts, and then a series of recorded hangouts with Martin Fowler and Kent Beck. This is what I wanted to talk with David about; this unconventional yet practical and intuitive view of how testing and development work together.
It's a great discussion. I think you'll get a lot out of it.
Special Guest: David Heinemeier Hansson.
Sponsored By:
PyCharm ProfessionalIf you value your time, you owe it to yourself to try PyCharm.
The team has set up a link just for Test & Code listeners.
If you use the link [testandcode.com/pycharm](http://testandcode.com/pycharm), you can try
PyCharm Professional for free for 3 months.
This offer is only good until Sept 1, so don't forget.
Plus using the link (I'll also have it in the show notes) lets PyCharm know that supporting Test & Code is a good thing.
Support Test & Code - Software Testing, Development, Python
Links:
Is TDD dead? - Part 1
My reaction to "Is TDD Dead?", including links to the other parts of the video series
RailsConf 2014 - Keynote: Writing Software by David Heinemeier Hansson - YouTube
TDD is dead. Long live testing. (DHH)
Test-induced design damage (DHH)
Slow database test fallacy (DHH)
41 min
July 21, 201844: Mentoring - Nina Zakharenko
Nina Zakharenko is a cloud developer advocate at Microsoft focusing on Python. She's also an excellent public speaker. We talk about her experience with mentoring, both being a mentor, and utilizing mentors. We also talk about public speaking, her move to Microsoft, and to Portland, and the Microsoft/GitHub merge.
Special Guest: Nina Zakharenko.
Links:
The Recurse Center
Why I joined Microsoft – Hacker Noon
Bootstrap · The most popular HTML, CSS, and JS library in the world.
Brian Holt on Twitter: "“Fullstack” developer.… "
27 min
July 21, 201844: Mentoring - Nina Zakharenko
Nina Zakharenko is a cloud developer advocate at Microsoft focusing on Python. She's also an excellent public speaker. We talk about her experience with mentoring, both being a mentor, and utilizing mentors. We also talk about public speaking, her move to Microsoft, and to Portland, and the Microsoft/GitHub merge.
Special Guest: Nina Zakharenko.
Sponsored By:
PyCharm ProfessionalIf you value your time, you owe it to yourself to try PyCharm.
The team has set up a link just for Test & Code listeners.
If you use the link [testandcode.com/pycharm](http://testandcode.com/pycharm), you can try
PyCharm Professional for free for 3 months.
This offer is only good until Sept 1, so don't forget.
Plus using the link (I'll also have it in the show notes) lets PyCharm know that supporting Test & Code is a good thing.
Support Test & Code - Software Testing, Development, Python
Links:
The Recurse Center
Why I joined Microsoft – Hacker Noon
Bootstrap · The most popular HTML, CSS, and JS library in the world.
Brian Holt on Twitter: "“Fullstack” developer.… "
27 min
July 17, 2018 Preparing for Technical Talks with Kelsey Hightower - bonus episode
After I had wrapped up the interview with Kelsey Hightower for episode 43, I asked him one last question.
You see, I admire the his presentation style.
So I asked him if he would share with me how he prepared for his presentations.
His answer is so thoughtful and makes so much sense, I couldn't keep it to myself.
I'm releasing this as a bonus mini-episode so that it's easy to refer back to the next time you or I have a chance to do a technical talk.
Special Guest: Kelsey Hightower.
9 min
July 17, 2018 Preparing for Technical Talks with Kelsey Hightower - bonus episode
After I had wrapped up the interview with Kelsey Hightower for episode 43, I asked him one last question.
You see, I admire the his presentation style.
So I asked him if he would share with me how he prepared for his presentations.
His answer is so thoughtful and makes so much sense, I couldn't keep it to myself.
I'm releasing this as a bonus mini-episode so that it's easy to refer back to the next time you or I have a chance to do a technical talk.
Special Guest: Kelsey Hightower.
Support Test & Code - Software Testing, Development, Python
9 min
July 05, 201843: Kelsey Hightower - End to End & Integration Testing
I first heard Kelsey speak during his 2017 PyCon keynote.
He's an amazing speaker, and I knew right then I wanted to hear more about what he does and hear more of his story.
We discuss testing, of course, but we take it further and discuss:
tests for large systems, like kubernetes
Testing in real world scenarios with all the configuration and everything
Becoming a complete engineer by thinking about the end to end flow from the users perspective
Learning from other roles, and the value of roles to allow focus and expertise
We even get into Chaos Engineering and testing live systems.
Special Guest: Kelsey Hightower.
42 min
July 05, 201843: Kelsey Hightower - End to End & Integration Testing
I first heard Kelsey speak during his 2017 PyCon keynote.
He's an amazing speaker, and I knew right then I wanted to hear more about what he does and hear more of his story.
We discuss testing, of course, but we take it further and discuss:
tests for large systems, like kubernetes
Testing in real world scenarios with all the configuration and everything
Becoming a complete engineer by thinking about the end to end flow from the users perspective
Learning from other roles, and the value of roles to allow focus and expertise
We even get into Chaos Engineering and testing live systems.
Special Guest: Kelsey Hightower.
Sponsored By:
PyCharm ProfessionalIf you value your time, you owe it to yourself to try PyCharm.
The team has set up a link just for Test & Code listeners.
If you use the link [testandcode.com/pycharm](http://testandcode.com/pycharm), you can try
PyCharm Professional for free for 3 months.
This offer is only good until Sept 1, so don't forget.
Plus using the link (I'll also have it in the show notes) lets PyCharm know that supporting Test & Code is a good thing.
Support Test & Code - Software Testing, Development, Python
42 min
June 28, 201842: Using Automated Tests to Help Teach Python - Trey Hunner
This interview with Trey Hunner discusses his use of automated tests to help teach programming.
Automated testing is a huge part of developing great software. But many new developers don't get exposed to testing for quite a while. But this is changing.
New ways to teach programming include automated tests from the beginning.
Trey Hunner is one of the PSF directors and a Python and Django team trainer, and he has been using automated tests to help people learn Python.
Special Guest: Trey Hunner.
Links:
Trey Hunner
Python Morsels - write better Python code
Trey's Weekly Python Chat
Trey's Training business: Truthful Technology
exercism.io
PyBites Code Challenges
CheckiO
59 min
June 28, 201842: Using Automated Tests to Help Teach Python - Trey Hunner
This interview with Trey Hunner discusses his use of automated tests to help teach programming.
Automated testing is a huge part of developing great software. But many new developers don't get exposed to testing for quite a while. But this is changing.
New ways to teach programming include automated tests from the beginning.
Trey Hunner is one of the PSF directors and a Python and Django team trainer, and he has been using automated tests to help people learn Python.
Special Guest: Trey Hunner.
Sponsored By:
Python BytesGet the latest Python news with the Python Bytes Podcast.
Talk Python to MeGet the back story and hear about the human side of the Python things you love with the Talk Python to Me Podcast
Support Test & Code - Software Testing, Development, Python
Links:
Trey Hunner
Python Morsels - write better Python code
Trey's Weekly Python Chat
Trey's Training business: Truthful Technology
exercism.io
PyBites Code Challenges
CheckiO
59 min
April 18, 201841: Testing in DevOps and Agile - Anthony Shaw
We talk with Anthony Shaw about some of the testing problems facing both DevOps teams, and Agile teams. We also talk about his recent pull request accepted into pytest.
Special Guest: Anthony Shaw.
Links:
Anthony Shaw on github.io
Support for the new builtin breakpoint function in Python 3.7 by tonybaloney · Pull Request #3331 · pytest-dev/pytest
45 min