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Interview with Sam Van Oort about pyresttest, "A REST testing and API microbenchmarking tool"

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:

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Interview with Dave Hunt
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We Cover:

• Selenium Driver
• pytest
• pytest plugins: 
  • pytest-selenium
  • pytest-html
  • pytest-variables
• tox
• Dave Hunt’s “help wanted” list on github
• Mozilla

Also:

• fixtures
• xfail
• CI and xfail and html reports
• CI and capturing 
• pytest code sprint
• working remotely for Mozilla

Interview with Dave Hunt @davehunt82.

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pytest is an extremely popular test framework used by many projects and companies. 

In this episode, I interview Raphael Aurich (@hackebrot), a core contributor to both pytest and cookiecutter. We discuss how Raphael got involved with both projects, his involvement in cookiecutter, pytest, "adopt pytest month", the pytest code sprint, and of course some of the cool new features in pytest 3.

Links:

• pytest - http://doc.pytest.org
• cookie cutter - https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter
• cookiecutter-pytest-plugin - https://github.com/pytest-dev/cookiecutter-pytest-plugin

pytest is an extremely popular test framework used by many projects and companies.

In this episode, I interview Raphael Pierzina (@hackebrot), a core contributor to both pytest and cookiecutter. We discuss how Raphael got involved with both projects, his involvement in cookiecutter, pytest, "adopt pytest month", the pytest code sprint, and of course some of the cool new features in pytest 3.

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Kent Beck's twitter profile says "Programmer, author, father, husband, goat farmer". But I know him best from his work on extreme programming, test first programming, and test driven development. He's the one. The reason you know about TDD is because of Kent Beck.

I first ran across writings from Kent Beck as started exploring Extreme Programming in the early 2000's.

Although I don't agree with all of the views he's expressed in his long and verbose career, I respect him as one of the best sources of information about software development, engineering practices, and software testing.

Along with Test First Programming and Test Driven Development, Kent started an automated test framework that turned into jUnit. jUnit and it's model of setup and teardown wrapping test functions, as well base test class driven test frameworks became what we know of as xUnit style frameworks now, which includes Python's unittest.

He discussed this history and a lot more on episode 122 of Software Engineering Radio. The episode is titled "The History of JUnit and the Future of Testing with Kent Beck", and is from Sept 26, 2010.

http://www.se-radio.net/2010/09/episode-167-the-history-of-junit-and-the-future-of-testing-with-kent-beck/

I urge you to download it and listen to the whole thing. It's a great interview, still relevant, and applicable to testing in any language, including Python.

What I've done in this podcast is take a handful of clips from the interview (with permission from IEEE and SERadio), and discuss the clips and my opinions a bit.

The lessons are:

Kent Beck's twitter profile says "Programmer, author, father, husband, goat farmer". But I know him best from his work on extreme programming, test first programming, and test driven development. He's the one. The reason you know about TDD is because of Kent Beck.

I first ran across writings from Kent Beck as started exploring Extreme Programming in the early 2000's.

Although I don't agree with all of the views he's expressed in his long and verbose career, I respect him as one of the best sources of information about software development, engineering practices, and software testing.

Along with Test First Programming and Test Driven Development, Kent started an automated test framework that turned into jUnit. jUnit and it's model of setup and teardown wrapping test functions, as well base test class driven test frameworks became what we know of as xUnit style frameworks now, which includes Python's unittest.

He discussed this history and a lot more on episode 122 of Software Engineering Radio. The episode is titled "The History of JUnit and the Future of Testing with Kent Beck", and is from Sept 26, 2010.

http://www.se-radio.net/2010/09/episode-167-the-history-of-junit-and-the-future-of-testing-with-kent-beck/

I urge you to download it and listen to the whole thing. It's a great interview, still relevant, and applicable to testing in any language, including Python.

What I've done in this podcast is take a handful of clips from the interview (with permission from IEEE and SERadio), and discuss the clips and my opinions a bit.

The lessons are:

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How do you convert manual tests to automated tests?

This episode looks at the differences between manual and automated tests and presents two strategies for converting manual to automated.

How do you convert manual tests to automated tests?

This episode looks at the differences between manual and automated tests and presents two strategies for converting manual to automated.

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A listener requested that I start covering some terminology. 
 I think it's a great idea.

Covered in this episode:

• Test Fixtures
• Subcutaneous Testing
• End to End Testing (System Testing)

I also discuss:

• A book rewrite
• Progress on transcripts
• A story from the slack channel