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2025 15

August 2

Test and Code 238 - So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

2 min read

Test and Code 237 - FastAPI Cloud - Sebastián Ramírez

31 min read

July 2

Test and Code 236 - Git Tips for Testing - Adam Johnson

16 min read

Test and Code 235 - pytest-django - Adam Johnson

15 min read

May 2

Test and Code 234 - pytest-metadata - provides access to test session metadata

5 min read

Test and Code 233 - pytest-check - allow multiple failures per test

1 min read

April 3

Test and Code 232 - The role of AI in software testing - Anthony Shaw

46 min read

Test and Code 231 - pytest-repeat - works fine on Python 3.14

6 min read

Test and Code 230 - Python 3.14 won't repeat with pytest-repeat

3 min read

March 1

Test and Code 229 - pytest-html - a plugin that generates HTML reports for test results

5 min read

February 2

Test and Code 228 - pytest-md and pytest-md-report - Markdown reports for pytest

8 min read

Test and Code 227 - Mocking in Python with unittest.mock - Michael Foord

41 min read

January 3

Test and Code 226 - pytest-mock - Mocking in pytest

9 min read

Test and Code 225 - pytest-cov - The pytest plugin for measuring coverage

10 min read

Test and Code 224 - pytest plugins - a full series

9 min read

2024 12

November 1

Test and Code 223 - Writing Stuff Down is a Super Power

19 min read

September 1

Test and Code 222 - Import within a Python package

9 min read

June 1

Test and Code 221 - How to get pytest to import your code under test

6 min read

May 1

Test and Code 220 - Getting the most out of PyCon, including juggling - Rob Ludwick

31 min read

April 3

Test and Code 219 - Building Django Apps and SaaS Pegasus - Cory Zue

39 min read

Test and Code 218 - Balancing test coverage with test costs - Nicole Tietz-Sokolskaya

23 min read

Test and Code 217 - Podcasting / SaaS / Work Life Balance - Justin Jackson

44 min read

March 1

Test and Code 216 - ruff, uv, and Astral - Python tooling, much faster, with Rust

41 min read

February 2

Test and Code 215 - Staying Technical as a Manager

36 min read

Test and Code 214 - Python Testing in VS Code

32 min read

January 2

Test and Code 213 - Repeating Tests

12 min read

Test and Code 212 - Canon TDD - by Kent Beck

6 min read

2023 17

December 1

Test and Code 211 - Stamp out test dependencies with pytest plugins

15 min read

November 2

Test and Code 210 - TDD - Refactor while green

13 min read

Test and Code 209 - Testing argparse Applications

13 min read

October 1

Test and Code 208 - Tests with no assert statements

10 min read

September 1

Test and Code 207 - pytest course, pytest-repeat and pytest-flakefinder

10 min read

August 1

Test and Code 206 - TDD in Context

17 min read

July 3

Test and Code 205 - pytest autouse fixtures

26 min read

Test and Code 204 - Free Your Inner Nonfiction Writer - Johanna Rothman

27 min read

Test and Code 203 - Open Source at Intel

36 min read

May 4

Test and Code 202 - Using Towncrier to Keep a Changelog - Hynek Schlawack

36 min read

Test and Code 201 - Avoid merge conflicts on your CHANGELOG with scriv - Ned Batchelder

29 min read

Test and Code 200 - Keep a CHANGELOG

39 min read

Test and Code 199 - Is Azure Right for a Side Project? - Pamela Fox

42 min read

April 2

Test and Code 198 - Testing Django Web Applications - Carlton Gibson, Will Vincent

58 min read

Test and Code 197 - Python project trove classifiers - Do you need this bit of pyproject.toml metadata? - Brett Cannon

1 min read

March 2

Test and Code 196 - I am not a supplier - Thomas Depierre

1 min read

Test and Code 195 - What would you change about pytest? - Anthony Sottile

1 min read

2022 19

August 2

Test and Code 193 - The Good Research Code Handbook - Patrick Mineault

1 min read

Test and Code 192 - Learn to code through game development with PursuedPyBear - Piper Thunstrom

1 min read

July 1

Test and Code 191 - Running your own site for fun and absolutely no profit whatsoever - Brian Wisti

1 min read

June 2

Test and Code 190 - Testing PyPy - Carl Friedrich Bolz-Tereick

1 min read

Test and Code 189 - attrs and dataclasses - Hynek Schlawack

1 min read

May 4

Test and Code 188 - Python's Rich, Textual, and Textualize - Innovating the CLI

1 min read

Test and Code 187 - Teaching Web Development, including Front End Testing

1 min read

Test and Code 186 - Developer and Team Productivity

37 min read

Test and Code 185 - Python + Django + Rich + Testing == Awesome

1 min read

March 3

Test and Code 184 - Twisted and Testing Event Driven / Asynchronous Applications - Glyph

1 min read

Test and Code 183 - Managing Software Teams - Ryan Cheley

1 min read

Test and Code 182 - An Unorthodox Technical Interview and Hiring Process - Nathan Aschbacher

2 min read

February 3

Test and Code 181 - Boost Your Django DX - Adam Johnson

1 min read

Test and Code 180 - Lean TDD

2 min read

Test and Code 179 - Exploratory Testing

1 min read

January 4

Test and Code 178 - The Five Factors of Automated Software Testing

1 min read

Test and Code 177 - Unit Test vs Integration Test and The Testing Trophy

1 min read

Test and Code 176 - SaaS Side Projects - Brandon Braner

1 min read

Test and Code 175 - Who Should Do QA?

1 min read

2021 33

December 2

Test and Code 174 - pseudo-TDD - Paul Ganssle

1 min read

Test and Code 173 - Why NOT unittest?

1 min read

November 5

Test and Code 172 - Designing Better Software with a Prototype Mindset

1 min read

Test and Code 171 - How and why I use pytest's xfail - Paul Ganssle

1 min read

Test and Code 170 - pytest for Data Science and Machine Learning - Prayson Daniel

1 min read

Test and Code 169 - Service and Microservice Performance Monitoring - Omri Sass

1 min read

Test and Code 168 - Understanding Complex Code by Refactoring into Larger Functions

1 min read

October 3

Test and Code 167 - React, TypeScript, and the Joy of Testing - Paul Everitt

1 min read

Test and Code 166 - unittest expectedFailure and xfail

1 min read

Test and Code 165 - pytest xfail policy and workflow

1 min read

September 1

Test and Code 164 - Debugging Python Test Failures with pytest

2 min read

August 2

Test and Code 163 - pip install ./local_directory - Stéphane Bidoul

1 min read

Test and Code 162 - Flavors of TDD

1 min read

July 3

Test and Code 161 - Waste in Software Development

1 min read

Test and Code 160 - DRY, WET, DAMP, AHA, and removing duplication from production code and test code

1 min read

Test and Code 159 - Python, pandas, and Twitter Analytics - Matt Harrison

1 min read

June 3

Test and Code 158 - TDD in Swift - Gio Lodi

1 min read

Test and Code 157 - pre-commit - Anthony Sottile

2 min read

Test and Code 156 - Flake8 - Python linting framework with Pyflakes, pycodestyle, McCabe, and more - Anthony Sottile

1 min read

May 4

Test and Code 155 - Four Questions to Ask Frequently During Software Projects - Tim Ottinger

1 min read

Test and Code 154 - Don't Mock your Database - Jeff Triplett

1 min read

Test and Code 153 - Playwright for Python - end to end testing of web apps - Ryan Howard

1 min read

Test and Code 152 - Python Packaging - Brett Cannon

1 min read

April 2

Test and Code 151 - Python Adventure - Brandon Rhodes

2 min read

Test and Code 150 - A Practical Testing Strategy

1 min read

March 3

Test and Code 149 - I don't test my code, "crappy Python" is all I write - Corey Quinn

1 min read

Test and Code 148 - Coverage.py and testing packages

1 min read

Test and Code 147 - Testing Single File Python Applications/Scripts with pytest and coverage

1 min read

February 4

Test and Code 146 - Automation Tools for Web App and API Development and Maintenance - Michael Kennedy

1 min read

Test and Code 145 - For Those About to Mock - Michael Foord

42 min read

Test and Code 144 - TDD in Science - Martin Héroux

1 min read

Test and Code 143 - pytest markers - Anthony Sottile

1 min read

January 1

Test and Code 142 - MongoDB - Mark Smith

1 min read

2020 44

December 3

Test and Code 141 - Visual Testing - Angie Jones

1 min read

Test and Code 140 - Testing in Scientific Research and Academia - Martin Héroux

1 min read

Test and Code 139 - Test Automation - Shifting Testing Throughout the Software Lifecycle - Nalin Parbhu

1 min read

November 2

Test and Code 138 - Mutation Testing in Python with mutmut - Anders Hovmöller

1 min read

Test and Code 137 - Become an Author - Matt Harrison interviews Brian Okken

1 min read

October 4

Test and Code 136 - Wearable Technology - Sophy Wong

2 min read

Test and Code 135 - Speeding up Django Test Suites - Adam Johnson

1 min read

Test and Code 134 - Business Outcomes and Software Development - Benjamin Harding

1 min read

Test and Code 133 - Major League Hacking - Jon Gottfried

1 min read

September 4

Test and Code 132 - mocking in Python - Anna-Lena Popkes

1 min read

Test and Code 131 - Test Smarter, Not Harder

1 min read

Test and Code 130 - virtualenv activation prompt consistency across shells - an open source dev and test adventure - Brian Skinn

2 min read

Test and Code 129 - How to Test Anything - David Lord

2 min read

August 5

Test and Code 128 - pytest-randomly - Adam Johnson

1 min read

Test and Code 127 - WFH, WTF? - Tips and Tricks for Working From Home - Reuven Lerner and Julian Sequeira

1 min read

Test and Code 126 - Data Science and Software Engineering Practices ( and Fizz Buzz ) - Joel Grus

1 min read

Test and Code 125 - pytest 6 - Anthony Sottile

2 min read

Test and Code 124 - pip dependency resolver changes

2 min read

July 4

Test and Code 123 - GitHub Actions - Tania Allard

1 min read

Test and Code 122 - Better Resumes for Software Engineers - Randall Kanna

1 min read

Test and Code 121 - Industrial 3D Printing and Python, Finite State Machines, and Simulating Hardware - Len Wanger

1 min read

Test and Code 120 - FastAPI and Typer - Sebastián Ramírez

1 min read

June 4

Test and Code 119 - Editable Python Installs, Packaging Standardization, and pyproject.toml - Brett Cannon

1 min read

Test and Code 118 - Code Coverage and 100% Coverage

1 min read

Test and Code 117 - Python extension for VS Code - Brett Cannon

1 min read

Test and Code 116 - 15 amazing pytest plugins - Michael Kennedy

2 min read

May 5

Test and Code 115 - Catching up with Nina Zakharenko

2 min read

Test and Code 114 - The Python Software Foundation (PSF) Board Elections - Ewa Jodlowska / Christopher Neugebauer

1 min read

Test and Code 113 - Technical Debt - James Smith

1 min read

Test and Code 112 - Six Principles of Readable Tests - David Seddon

1 min read

Test and Code 111 - Subtests in Python with unittest and pytest - Paul Ganssle

1 min read

April 3

Test and Code 110 - Testing Django - from unittest to pytest - Adam Parkin

1 min read

Test and Code 109 - Testing in Financial Services - Eric Bergemann

1 min read

Test and Code 108 - PySpark - Jonathan Rioux

1 min read

March 4

Test and Code 107 - Property Based Testing in Python with Hypothesis - Alexander Hultnér

1 min read

Test and Code 106 - Visual Testing - How IDEs can make software testing easier - Paul Everitt

1 min read

Test and Code 105 - TAP - Test Anything Protocol - Matt Layman

1 min read

Test and Code 104 - Top 28 pytest plugins - Anthony Sottile

1 min read

February 4

Test and Code 103 - Django - Lacey Williams Henschel

1 min read

Test and Code 102 - Cosmic Python, TDD, testing and external dependencies - Harry Percival

1 min read

Test and Code 101 - Application Security - Anthony Shaw

1 min read

Test and Code 100 - A/B Testing - Leemay Nassery

1 min read

January 2

Test and Code 99 - Software Maintenance and Chess

1 min read

Test and Code 98 - pytest-testmon - selects tests affected by changed files and methods - Tibor Arpas

1 min read

2019 36

December 2

Test and Code 97 - 2019 Retrospective, 2020 Plans, and an amazing decade

2 min read

Test and Code 96 - Azure Pipelines - Thomas Eckert

1 min read

November 2

Test and Code 95 - Data Science Pipeline Testing with Great Expectations - Abe Gong

1 min read

Test and Code 94 - The real 11 reasons I don't hire you - Charity Majors

1 min read

October 4

Test and Code 93 - Software Testing, Book Writing, Teaching, Public Speaking, and PyCarolinas - Andy Knight

1 min read

Test and Code 92 - 9 Steps to Crater Quality and Destroy Customer Satisfaction - Cristian Medina

1 min read

Test and Code 91 - Python 3.8 - there's a lot more new than most people are talking about

1 min read

Test and Code 90 - Dynamic Scope Fixtures in pytest 5.2 - Anthony Sottile

1 min read

September 4

Test and Code 89 - Improving Programming Education - Nicholas Tollervey

1 min read

Test and Code 88 - Error Monitoring, Crash Reporting, Performance Monitoring - JD Trask

1 min read

Test and Code 87 - Paths to Parametrization - from one test to many

1 min read

Test and Code 86 - Teaching testing best practices with 4 testing maxims - Josh Peak

1 min read

August 3

Test and Code 85 - Speed Up Test Suites - Niklas Meinzer

1 min read

Test and Code 84 - CircuitPython - Scott Shawcroft

1 min read

Test and Code 83 - PyBites Code Challenges behind the scenes - Bob Belderbos

1 min read

July 3

Test and Code 82 - pytest - favorite features since 3.0 - Anthony Sottile

1 min read

Test and Code 81 - TDD with flit

2 min read

Test and Code 80 - From Python script to Maintainable Package

1 min read

June 3

Test and Code 79 - Fixing misinformation about software testing

1 min read

Test and Code 78 - I don't write tests because ...

1 min read

Test and Code 77 - Testing Complex Systems with Maintainable Test Suites

1 min read

May 4

Test and Code 76 - TDD - Don’t be afraid of Test-Driven Development - Chris May

1 min read

Test and Code 75 - Modern Testing Principles - Alan Page

2 min read

Test and Code 74 - Technical Interviews - Preparing For, What to Expect, and Tips for Success - Derrick Mar

1 min read

Test and Code 73 - PyCon 2019 Live Recording

1 min read

April 2

Test and Code 72 - Technical Interview Fixes - April Wensel

1 min read

Test and Code 71 - Memorable Tech Talks, The Ultimate Guide - Nina Zakharenko

2 min read

March 3

Test and Code 70 - Learning Software without a CS degree - Dane Hillard

1 min read

Test and Code 69 - Andy Hunt - The Pragmatic Programmer

1 min read

Test and Code 68 - test and commit or revert (TCR) - Thomas Deniffel

2 min read

February 4

Test and Code 67 - Teaching Python in Middle School

1 min read

Test and Code 66 - Brian is interviewed by Phil Burgess

1 min read

Test and Code 65 - one assert per test

1 min read

Test and Code 64 - Practicing Programming to increase your value

1 min read

January 2

Test and Code 63 - Python Corporate Training - Matt Harrison

1 min read

Test and Code 62 - Python Training - Reuven Lerner

1 min read

2018 28

December 7

Test and Code 61 - A retrospective

1 min read

Test and Code 60 - 100 Days of Code - Julian Sequeira

1 min read

Test and Code 59 - Genesynth, nox, urllib3, and PyCascades - Thea Flowers

1 min read

Test and Code 58 - REST APIs, testing with Docker containers and pytest

1 min read

Test and Code 57 - What is Data Science? - Vicki Boykis

1 min read

Test and Code 56 - Being a Guest on a Podcast - Michael Kennedy

2 min read

Test and Code 55 - When 100% test coverage just isn't enough - Mahmoud Hashemi

1 min read

November 3

Test and Code 54 - Python 1994 - Paul Everitt

1 min read

Test and Code 53 - Seven Databases in Seven Weeks - Luc Perkins

1 min read

Test and Code 52 - pyproject.toml - the future of Python packaging - Brett Cannon

1 min read

October 4

Test and Code 51 - Feature Testing

1 min read

Test and Code 50 - Flaky Tests and How to Deal with Them

1 min read

Test and Code 49 - tox - Oliver Bestwalter

2 min read

Test and Code 48 - A GUI for pytest

1 min read

September 2

Test and Code 47 - Automation Panda - Andy Knight

1 min read

Test and Code 46 - Testing Hard To Test Applications - Anthony Shaw

1 min read

August 1

Test and Code 45 - David Heinemeier Hansson - Software Development and Testing, TDD, and exploratory QA

1 min read

July 3

Test and Code 44 - Mentoring - Nina Zakharenko

1 min read

Test and Code 44 - Preparing for Technical Talks with Kelsey Hightower - bonus episode

1 min read

Test and Code 43 - Kelsey Hightower - End to End and Integration Testing

1 min read

June 1

Test and Code 42 - Using Automated Tests to Help Teach Python - Trey Hunner

1 min read

April 2

Test and Code 41 - Testing in DevOps and Agile - Anthony Shaw

1 min read

Test and Code 40 - On Podcasting - Adam Clark

1 min read

March 3

Test and Code 39 - Thorough software testing for critical features

1 min read

Test and Code 38 - Prioritize software tests with RCRCRC

1 min read

Test and Code 37 - What tests to write first

1 min read

February 2

Test and Code 36 - Stephanie Hurlburt - Mentoring and Open Office Hours

1 min read

Test and Code 35 - Continuing Education and Certificate Programs at UW

1 min read

2017 8

December 1

Test and Code 34 - TDD and Test First

1 min read

November 1

Test and Code 33 - Katharine Jarmul - Testing in Data Science

1 min read

October 1

Test and Code 32 - David Hussman - Agile vs Agility, Dude's Law, and more

2 min read

September 1

Test and Code 31 - I'm so sick of the testing pyramid

1 min read

July 1

Test and Code 30 - Legacy Code - M. Scott Ford

1 min read

June 1

Test and Code 29 - Kobiton and QASymphony - Josh Lieberman

1 min read

April 1

Test and Code 28 - Chaos Engineering and Experimentation at Netflix - Casey Rosenthal

1 min read

February 1

Test and Code 27 - Mahmoud Hashemi - unit, integration, and system testing

1 min read

2016 18

December 2

Test and Code 25 - Selenium, pytest, Mozilla – Dave Hunt

1 min read

Test and Code 26 - pyresttest – Sam Van Oort

1 min read

November 1

Test and Code 24 - pytest - Raphael Aurich

1 min read

September 2

Test and Code 23 - Lessons about testing and TDD from Kent Beck

2 min read

Test and Code 22 - Converting Manual Tests to Automated Tests

1 min read

August 1

Test and Code 21 - Terminology - test fixtures, subcutaneous testing, end to end testing, system testing

1 min read

July 1

Test and Code 20 - Talk Python To Me - Michael Kennedy

1 min read

June 1

Test and Code 19 - Python unittest - Robert Collins

1 min read

April 2

Test and Code 18 - Testing in Startups and Hiring Software Engineers - Joe Stump

1 min read

Test and Code 17 - The Travis Foundation - Laura Gaetano

1 min read

March 2

Test and Code 16 - Welcome to Test and Code

1 min read

Test and Code 15 - Lean Software Development

1 min read

February 4

Test and Code 14 - Continuous Integration with Travis CI – Josh Kalderimis

1 min read

Test and Code 13 - Ian Cordasco – Betamax

1 min read

Test and Code 12 - Coverage.py with Ned Batchelder

2 min read

Test and Code 11 - pytest assert magic

1 min read

January 2

Test and Code 10 - Test Case Design using Given-When-Then from BDD

1 min read

Test and Code 9 - Harry Percival - Testing Web Apps with Python, Selenium, Django

1 min read

2015 7

December 1

Test and Code 8 - Agile vs Agility - Agile Is Dead (Long Live Agility)

1 min read

October 2

Test and Code 7 - The Waterfall Model and “Managing the Development of Large Software Systems”

1 min read

Test and Code 6 - Writing software is like nothing else

1 min read

September 3

Test and Code 5 - Test Classes - No OO experience required

1 min read

Test and Code 4 - Test Fixtures - Setup, Teardown, and so much more

1 min read

Test and Code 3 - Why test?

19 min read

August 1

Test and Code 2 - Pytest vs Unittest vs Nose

10 min read