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Test and Code Archive

Archive of Test and Code Episodes
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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