Test & Code

By Brian OkkenTechnology Education How To

Test & Code episodes

September 27, 201731: I'm so sick of the testing pyramid
What started as a twitter disagreement carries over into this civil discussion of software testing.
Brian and Paul discuss testing practices such as the testing pyramid, TDD, unit testing, system testing, and balancing test effort.
the Testing Pyramid
the Testing Column
TDD
unit testing
balancing unit with system tests, functional tests
API testing
subcutaneous testing
customer facing tests
Special Guest: Paul Merrill.
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Episode 34 - Software and Testing Models with Guest Host Brian Okken - Reflection As A Service — Cross posted to RaaS
Subcutaneous Test — I use subcutaneous test to mean a test that operates just under the UI of an application.
The Forgotten Layer of the Test Automation Pyramid — At the base of the test automation pyramid is unit testing.
The Dreyfus model of skill acquisition — The Five-Stage Model of Adult Skill Acquisition
40 min
August 01, 201730: Legacy Code - M. Scott Ford
M. Scott Ford is the founder and chief code whisperer at Corgibytes, a company focused on helping other companies with legacy code.
Topics include:
How M. Scott Ford got into forming a company that works on legacy code.
Technical debt
Process debt
Software testing
The testing pyramid
iterative development
kanban
readable code and readable test code
Special Guest: M. Scott Ford.
42 min
August 01, 201730: Legacy Code - M. Scott Ford
M. Scott Ford is the founder and chief code whisperer at Corgibytes, a company focused on helping other companies with legacy code.
Topics include:
How M. Scott Ford got into forming a company that works on legacy code.
Technical debt
Process debt
Software testing
The testing pyramid
iterative development
kanban
readable code and readable test code
Special Guest: M. Scott Ford.
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waffle.io
42 min
July 01, 2017 29: Kobiton & QASymphony - Josh Lieberman
Kobiton is a service to test mobile apps on real devices.
QASymphony offers software testing and QA tools.
Special Guest: Josh Lieberman.
19 min
July 01, 201729: Kobiton & QASymphony - Josh Lieberman
Kobiton is a service to test mobile apps on real devices.
QASymphony offers software testing and QA tools.
Special Guest: Josh Lieberman.
Sponsored By:
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19 min
April 07, 201728: Chaos Engineering & Experimentation at Netflix - Casey Rosenthal
Today we have an interview with Casey Rosenthal of Netflix.
One of the people making sure Netflix runs smoothly is Casey Rosenthall.
He is the manager for the Traffic, Intuition, and Chaos teams at Netflix.
He's got a great perspective on quality and large systems.
We talk about
Chaos Engineering
Experimentation vs Testing
Testing Strategy
Visualization of large amounts of data representing Steady State
Special Guest: Casey Rosenthal.
33 min
April 07, 201728: Chaos Engineering & Experimentation at Netflix - Casey Rosenthal
Today we have an interview with Casey Rosenthal of Netflix.
One of the people making sure Netflix runs smoothly is Casey Rosenthall.
He is the manager for the Traffic, Intuition, and Chaos teams at Netflix.
He's got a great perspective on quality and large systems.
We talk about
Chaos Engineering
Experimentation vs Testing
Testing Strategy
Visualization of large amounts of data representing Steady State
Special Guest: Casey Rosenthal.
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33 min
February 26, 201727: Mahmoud Hashemi : unit, integration, and system testing
What is the difference between a unit test, an integration test, and a system test? Mahmoud Hashemi helps me to define these terms, as well as discuss the role of all testing variants in software development.
What is the difference between a unit test, an integration test, and a system test?
TDD
testing pyramid vs testing column
the role of testing in software development
web frameworks
listen to wikipedia
hatnote
the world’s largest photo competition
Enterprise Software with Python
Links:
Mahmoud on twitter: @mhashemi
Mahmoud on sedimental
hatnote
listen to wikipedia
Montage, the web platform used to help judge the world’s largest photo competition
clastic
10 Myths of Enterprise Python
Enterprise Software with Python course
Enterprise Software with Python blog post.
Special Guest: Mahmoud Hashemi.
42 min
February 26, 201727: Mahmoud Hashemi : unit, integration, and system testing
What is the difference between a unit test, an integration test, and a system test? Mahmoud Hashemi helps me to define these terms, as well as discuss the role of all testing variants in software development.
What is the difference between a unit test, an integration test, and a system test?
TDD
testing pyramid vs testing column
the role of testing in software development
web frameworks
listen to wikipedia
hatnote
the world’s largest photo competition
Enterprise Software with Python
Links:
Mahmoud on twitter: @mhashemi
Mahmoud on sedimental
hatnote
listen to wikipedia
Montage, the web platform used to help judge the world’s largest photo competition
clastic
10 Myths of Enterprise Python
Enterprise Software with Python course
Enterprise Software with Python blog post.
Special Guest: Mahmoud Hashemi.
Sponsored By:
NerdletteringLove Python? Show It With Some Python Swag
Custom-made Mugs and Accessories for Pythonistas, by Pythonistas. Promo Code: TESTCODE
Talk Python TrainingOnline video courses for Python developers
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42 min
December 01, 201626: pyresttest – Sam Van Oort
Interview with Sam Van Oort about pyresttest, "A REST testing and API microbenchmarking tool"
pyresttest
A question in the Test & Code Slack channel was raised about testing REST APIs. There were answers such as pytest + requests, of course, but there was also a mention of pyresttest, https://github.com/svanoort/pyresttest, which I hadn't heard of. I checked out the github repo, and was struck by how user friendly the user facing test definitions were. So I contacted the developer, Sam Van Oort, and asked him to come on the show and tell me about this tool and why he developed it.
Here's the "What is it?" section from the pyresttest README:
A REST testing and API microbenchmarking tool
Tests are defined in basic YAML or JSON config files, no code needed
Minimal dependencies (pycurl, pyyaml, optionally future), making it easy to deploy on-server for smoketests/healthchecks
Supports generate/extract/validate mechanisms to create full test scenarios
Returns exit codes on failure, to slot into automated configuration management/orchestration tools (also supplies parseable logs)
Logic is written and extensible in Python
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58 min