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2025 3

August 1

pytest fixtures nuts and bolts - revisited

1 min read

May 2

Time Machine back to 2012

2 min read

Unravelling t-strings with pytest

5 min read

2024 3

December 1

Testing some tidbits with pytest

3 min read

August 1

Finding the top pytest plugins

3 min read

January 1

pytest 8 is here

2 min read

2023 7

November 2

Testing argparse Applications

7 min read

pytest slow order

3 min read

October 1

Upgrading to Python 3.12 and my battle with virtualenv cache

2 min read

September 1

pytest Primary Power Course Is Ready

1 min read

March 1

Sharing is Caring - Sharing pytest Fixtures - PyCascades 2023

1 min read

February 1

pytest tips and tricks

6 min read

January 1

Fixing Circular Imports in Python with Protocol

4 min read

2022 5

December 1

Testing with Python 3.12

3 min read

October 1

Installing Python 3.11 on Mac or Windows

4 min read

September 1

Talk - Sharing is Caring - pytest fixture edition

1 min read

April 1

Current Git CLI workflow

2 min read

February 1

Lean TDD

17 min read

2021 1

June 1

Pinning Application Dependencies with pip-tools compile

1 min read

2016 3

November 1

PythonBytes.fm

1 min read

April 1

Python featured in April issue of PragPub

1 min read

February 1

Given-When-Then

11 min read

2015 5

March 3

pytest-expect code now in a github repo

1 min read

pytest expect fixture plugin, iteration 1

3 min read

Test First Programming / Test First Development

8 min read

February 2

pytest delayed assert / multiple failure plugin, iteration 1

4 min read

Delayed assert / multiple failures per test

6 min read

2014 16

November 1

perspectives, opinions, dogma, and an elephant

4 min read

August 1

Why Most Unit Testing is Waste

30 min read

May 1

My reaction to “Is TDD Dead?”

7 min read

April 1

How do I start testing?

5 min read

March 2

Mixing pytest fixture scope

3 min read

pytest session scoped fixtures

3 min read

February 10

Using pytest fixtures by naming them

1 min read

Modularity - pytest fixtures using other fixtures

2 min read

Using multiple pytest fixtures

2 min read

Parametrizing pytest fixtures with params

3 min read

pytest fixture scope

2 min read

pytest fixture return value

2 min read

pytest fixture teardown

2 min read

Using pytest fixtures with mark.usefixtures

2 min read

Using pytest autouse fixtures

2 min read

Basic pytest fixtures example

2 min read

2013 19

December 1

pytest xUnit style fixtures

5 min read

November 1

pytest fixtures nuts and bolts

2 min read

October 1

The power of “Thank You”

3 min read

August 1

tip: dictionary get() works like getattr

1 min read

July 1

I’m annoyed with Python’s ternary operator

2 min read

June 4

pytest support for unittest style fixtures

1 min read

Run a single test class with unittest and pytest

1 min read

What happens when unittest fixtures fail

6 min read

unittest fixture syntax and flow reference

6 min read

May 1

Complete coverage testing from the bottom of the pyramid up is a bad idea

6 min read

April 1

pytest debug print logging in real time

4 min read

February 2

Python regex Search and Replace Examples

4 min read

Perl regex Search and Replace Examples

2 min read

January 6

Don't use nose

1 min read

Running doctest from pytest

1 min read

Running unittest from pytest

1 min read

pytest introduction

6 min read

Confession … I still use perl on the command line

3 min read

unittest introduction

6 min read

2012 5

December 1

doctest introduction

6 min read

November 1

Software API/CLI interface adapters

6 min read

October 3

Stub for markdown.py

2 min read

Markdown requirements

1 min read

Why Markdown

3 min read