Test & Code

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Test & Code episodes

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.
Sponsored By:
Python Testing with pytestSimple, Rapid, Effective, and Scalable
The fastest way to learn pytest. From 0 to expert in under 200 pages.
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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
April 10, 201840: On Podcasting - Adam Clark
Adam is the host of The Gently Mad podcast, and teaches the steps in creating and growing a podcast in his course Irresistible Podcasting.
He was one of the people who inspired Brian to get the Test & Code podcast started in the first place. Brian took his course in 2015. Adam is in the process of updating the course, and building a community around it.
Warning: This may be an episode to listen to with headphones if you have kids around. There is swearing.
I wanted to get Adam's help to convince many of you to either come on this show as a guest, or start your own podcast. We did some of that. But we also cover a lot of issues like self doubt and the importance of community.
Special Guest: Adam Clark.
Links:
Irresistible Podcasting – A Step by Step Guide to Launching and Growing a Podcast that Can’t Be Ignored
The Gently Mad – Life, business & entrepreneurship without the bullshit.
avclark.com
Justin Jacksons episodes on minimal podcasting | Build and Launch
Dan Benjamin's Podcast Method podcast
Python Bytes Podcast
ATR2100 Mic
Shure SM57 Mic
Shure SM7B mic
dbx 286s Microphone Preamp Processor
Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 USB Audio Interface
49 min
April 10, 201840: On Podcasting - Adam Clark
Adam is the host of The Gently Mad podcast, and teaches the steps in creating and growing a podcast in his course Irresistible Podcasting.
He was one of the people who inspired Brian to get the Test & Code podcast started in the first place. Brian took his course in 2015. Adam is in the process of updating the course, and building a community around it.
Warning: This may be an episode to listen to with headphones if you have kids around. There is swearing.
I wanted to get Adam's help to convince many of you to either come on this show as a guest, or start your own podcast. We did some of that. But we also cover a lot of issues like self doubt and the importance of community.
Special Guest: Adam Clark.
Sponsored By:
Python Testing with pytestSimple, Rapid, Effective, and Scalable
The fastest way to learn pytest. From 0 to expert in under 200 pages.
Patreon SupportersHelp support the show with as little as $1 per month.
Funds help pay for expenses associated with the show.
Support Test & Code - Software Testing, Development, Python
Links:
Irresistible Podcasting – A Step by Step Guide to Launching and Growing a Podcast that Can’t Be Ignored
The Gently Mad – Life, business & entrepreneurship without the bullshit.
avclark.com
Justin Jacksons episodes on minimal podcasting | Build and Launch
Dan Benjamin's Podcast Method podcast
Python Bytes Podcast
ATR2100 Mic
Shure SM57 Mic
Shure SM7B mic
dbx 286s Microphone Preamp Processor
Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 USB Audio Interface
49 min
March 29, 201839: Thorough software testing for critical features
Complete and exhaustive testing is not possible. Nor would it be fun, or maintainable, or a good use of your time.
However, some functionality is important enough to make sure the test behavior coverage is thorough enough to have high confidence in it's quality.
In this episode, we discuss 3 techniques that can be combined to quickly generate test cases. We then talk about how to implement them efficiently in pytest.
The techniques covered are:
equivalence partitioning
boundary value analysis
decision tables
We discuss how to use these to generate test cases for a new list filter functionality in the cards application.
The resulting tests:
1 UI test to make sure the options are able to be passed in correctly.
1 small parametrized test function with 16 single line parameter sets representing the different test cases.
Links:
github cards project (version 0.1.11)
Equivalence partitioning - Wikipedia
Boundary-value analysis - Wikipedia
Decision table - Wikipedia
Slack Channel for Test and Code
DJ YANiC - The awesome listener that contributed our theme music.
19 min
March 29, 201839: Thorough software testing for critical features
Complete and exhaustive testing is not possible. Nor would it be fun, or maintainable, or a good use of your time.
However, some functionality is important enough to make sure the test behavior coverage is thorough enough to have high confidence in it's quality.
In this episode, we discuss 3 techniques that can be combined to quickly generate test cases. We then talk about how to implement them efficiently in pytest.
The techniques covered are:
equivalence partitioning
boundary value analysis
decision tables
We discuss how to use these to generate test cases for a new list filter functionality in the cards application.
The resulting tests:
1 UI test to make sure the options are able to be passed in correctly.
1 small parametrized test function with 16 single line parameter sets representing the different test cases.
Sponsored By:
Python Testing with pytestSimple, Rapid, Effective, and Scalable
The fastest way to learn pytest. From 0 to expert in under 200 pages.
Patreon SupportersHelp support the show with as little as $1 per month.
Funds help pay for expenses associated with the show.
Support Test & Code - Software Testing, Development, Python
Links:
github cards project (version 0.1.11)
Equivalence partitioning - Wikipedia
Boundary-value analysis - Wikipedia
Decision table - Wikipedia
Slack Channel for Test and Code
DJ YANiC - The awesome listener that contributed our theme music.
19 min
March 13, 201838: Prioritize software tests with RCRCRC
RCRCRC was developed by Karen Nicole Johnson.
In this episode we discuss the mnemonic/heuristic and use it to prioritize tests for the cards application.
Recent: new features, new areas of code
Core: essential functions must continue to work, your products USPs (Unique Selling Propositions)
Risk: some areas of an application pose more risk, perhaps areas important to customers but not used regularly by the development team.
Configuration sensitive: code that’s dependent on environment settings or operating system specifics
Repaired: tests to reproduce bugs, tests for functionality that has been recently repaired.
Chronic: functionality that frequently breaks
Links:
A heuristic for regression testing, by Karen Nicole Johnson
@karennjohnson
cards on github
cards on Travis CI
cards on AppVeyor
12 min
March 13, 201838: Prioritize software tests with RCRCRC
RCRCRC was developed by Karen Nicole Johnson.
In this episode we discuss the mnemonic/heuristic and use it to prioritize tests for the cards application.
Recent: new features, new areas of code
Core: essential functions must continue to work, your products USPs (Unique Selling Propositions)
Risk: some areas of an application pose more risk, perhaps areas important to customers but not used regularly by the development team.
Configuration sensitive: code that’s dependent on environment settings or operating system specifics
Repaired: tests to reproduce bugs, tests for functionality that has been recently repaired.
Chronic: functionality that frequently breaks
Sponsored By:
Patreon SupportersHelp support the show with as little as $1 per month.
Funds help pay for expenses associated with the show.
Support Test & Code - Software Testing, Development, Python
Links:
A heuristic for regression testing, by Karen Nicole Johnson
@karennjohnson
cards on github
cards on Travis CI
cards on AppVeyor
12 min
March 08, 201837: What tests to write first
This episode starts down the path of test strategy with the first tests to write in either a legacy system or a project just getting off it's feet.
We cover:
My approach to testing existing systems.
Put names to strategies so we can refer to them later.
Explain the strategies in general terms and explain why they are useful.
Discuss how these strategies are used in an example project. (The code is available on github).
Strategies covered today:
Dog Fooding
Exploratory Testing
Tracer Bullet Tests
Act Like A Customer (ALAC) Tests
Manual Procedures
Initial automated tests at 2 levels, API and UI.
21 min
March 08, 201837: What tests to write first
This episode starts down the path of test strategy with the first tests to write in either a legacy system or a project just getting off it's feet.
We cover:
My approach to testing existing systems.
Put names to strategies so we can refer to them later.
Explain the strategies in general terms and explain why they are useful.
Discuss how these strategies are used in an example project. (The code is available on github).
Strategies covered today:
Dog Fooding
Exploratory Testing
Tracer Bullet Tests
Act Like A Customer (ALAC) Tests
Manual Procedures
Initial automated tests at 2 levels, API and UI.
Support Test & Code - Software Testing, Development, Python
21 min
February 13, 201836: Stephanie Hurlburt - Mentoring and Open Office Hours
Stephanie is a co-founder and graphics engineer at Binomial.
She works on Basis, an image compressor, and has customers in games, video, mapping, and any application that has lots of image data.
Stephanie has also been encouraging experienced engineers to open up their twitter DMs to questions from anyone, to help mentor people not only in technical questions, but in career questions as well.
She also sets aside some time to mentor people through skype when written form just doesn't cut it.
That's the primary reason I have Stephanie on today, to talk about mentoring and open office hours.
But we also talk about
Binomial
image compression
texture mapping
the use of both manual and automated testing for complex systems
sane work hours
work life balance
and how long hours have led her to the opinions she holds today
Special Guest: Stephanie Hurlburt.
Links:
Binomial
List of Engineers Willing to Mentor You — Stephanie Hurlburt
Stephanie Hurlburt (@sehurlburt) | Twitter
Slack - Python Testing / Test & Code — A super nice group of folks who are great at answering test related questions.
32 min