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2025 15

August 2

238 - So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

2 min read

237 - FastAPI Cloud - Sebastián Ramírez

31 min read

July 2

236 - Git Tips for Testing - Adam Johnson

16 min read

235 - pytest-django - Adam Johnson

15 min read

May 2

234 - pytest-metadata - provides access to test session metadata

5 min read

233 - pytest-check - allow multiple failures per test

1 min read

April 3

232 - The role of AI in software testing - Anthony Shaw

46 min read

231 - pytest-repeat - works fine on Python 3.14

6 min read

230 - Python 3.14 won't repeat with pytest-repeat

3 min read

March 1

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

5 min read

February 2

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

8 min read

227 - Mocking in Python with unittest.mock - Michael Foord

41 min read

January 3

226 - pytest-mock - Mocking in pytest

9 min read

225 - pytest-cov - The pytest plugin for measuring coverage

10 min read

224 - pytest plugins - a full series

9 min read

2024 12

November 1

223 - Writing Stuff Down is a Super Power

19 min read

September 1

222 - Import within a Python package

9 min read

June 1

221 - How to get pytest to import your code under test

6 min read

May 1

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

31 min read

April 3

219 - Building Django Apps & SaaS Pegasus - Cory Zue

39 min read

218 - Balancing test coverage with test costs - Nicole Tietz-Sokolskaya

23 min read

217 - Podcasting / SaaS / Work Life Balance - Justin Jackson

44 min read

March 1

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

41 min read

February 2

215 - Staying Technical as a Manager

36 min read

214 - Python Testing in VS Code

32 min read

January 2

213 - Repeating Tests

12 min read

212 - Canon TDD - by Kent Beck

6 min read

2023 17

December 1

211 - Stamp out test dependencies with pytest plugins

15 min read

November 2

210 - TDD - Refactor while green

13 min read

209 - Testing argparse Applications

13 min read

October 1

208 - Tests with no assert statements

10 min read

September 1

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

10 min read

August 1

206 - TDD in Context

17 min read

July 3

205 - pytest autouse fixtures

26 min read

204 - Free Your Inner Nonfiction Writer - Johanna Rothman

27 min read

203 - Open Source at Intel

36 min read

May 4

202 - Using Towncrier to Keep a Changelog - Hynek Schlawack

36 min read

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

29 min read

200 - Keep a CHANGELOG

39 min read

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

42 min read

April 2

198 - Testing Django Web Applications - Carlton Gibson, Will Vincent

58 min read

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

1 min read

March 2

196 - I am not a supplier - Thomas Depierre

1 min read

195 - What would you change about pytest? - Anthony Sottile

1 min read

2022 19

August 2

193 - The Good Research Code Handbook - Patrick Mineault

1 min read

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

1 min read

July 1

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

1 min read

June 2

190 - Testing PyPy - Carl Friedrich Bolz-Tereick

1 min read

189 - attrs and dataclasses - Hynek Schlawack

1 min read

May 4

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

1 min read

187 - Teaching Web Development, including Front End Testing

1 min read

186 - Developer and Team Productivity

37 min read

185 - Python + Django + Rich + Testing == Awesome

1 min read

March 3

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

1 min read

183 - Managing Software Teams - Ryan Cheley

1 min read

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

2 min read

February 3

181 - Boost Your Django DX - Adam Johnson

1 min read

180 - Lean TDD

2 min read

179 - Exploratory Testing

1 min read

January 4

178 - The Five Factors of Automated Software Testing

1 min read

177 - Unit Test vs Integration Test and The Testing Trophy

1 min read

176 - SaaS Side Projects - Brandon Braner

1 min read

175 - Who Should Do QA?

1 min read

2021 33

December 2

174 - pseudo-TDD - Paul Ganssle

1 min read

173 - Why NOT unittest?

1 min read

November 5

172 - Designing Better Software with a Prototype Mindset

1 min read

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

1 min read

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

1 min read

169 - Service and Microservice Performance Monitoring - Omri Sass

1 min read

168 - Understanding Complex Code by Refactoring into Larger Functions

1 min read

October 3

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

1 min read

166 - unittest expectedFailure and xfail

1 min read

165 - pytest xfail policy and workflow

1 min read

September 1

164 - Debugging Python Test Failures with pytest

2 min read

August 2

163 - pip install ./local_directory - Stéphane Bidoul

1 min read

162 - Flavors of TDD

1 min read

July 3

161 - Waste in Software Development

1 min read

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

1 min read

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

1 min read

June 3

158 - TDD in Swift - Gio Lodi

1 min read

157 - pre-commit - Anthony Sottile

2 min read

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

1 min read

May 4

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

1 min read

154 - Don't Mock your Database - Jeff Triplett

1 min read

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

1 min read

152 - Python Packaging - Brett Cannon

1 min read

April 2

151 - Python Adventure - Brandon Rhodes

2 min read

150 - A Practical Testing Strategy

1 min read

March 3

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

1 min read

148 - Coverage.py and testing packages

1 min read

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

1 min read

February 4

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

1 min read

145 - For Those About to Mock - Michael Foord

42 min read

144 - TDD in Science - Martin Héroux

1 min read

143 - pytest markers - Anthony Sottile

1 min read

January 1

142 - MongoDB - Mark Smith

1 min read

2020 44

December 3

141 - Visual Testing - Angie Jones

1 min read

140 - Testing in Scientific Research and Academia - Martin Héroux

1 min read

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

1 min read

November 2

138 - Mutation Testing in Python with mutmut - Anders Hovmöller

1 min read

137 - Become an Author - Matt Harrison interviews Brian Okken

1 min read

October 4

136 - Wearable Technology - Sophy Wong

2 min read

135 - Speeding up Django Test Suites - Adam Johnson

1 min read

134 - Business Outcomes and Software Development - Benjamin Harding

1 min read

133 - Major League Hacking - Jon Gottfried

1 min read

September 4

132 - mocking in Python - Anna-Lena Popkes

1 min read

131 - Test Smarter, Not Harder

1 min read

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

2 min read

129 - How to Test Anything - David Lord

2 min read

August 5

128 - pytest-randomly - Adam Johnson

1 min read

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

1 min read

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

1 min read

125 - pytest 6 - Anthony Sottile

2 min read

124 - pip dependency resolver changes

2 min read

July 4

123 - GitHub Actions - Tania Allard

1 min read

122 - Better Resumes for Software Engineers - Randall Kanna

1 min read

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

1 min read

120 - FastAPI & Typer - Sebastián Ramírez

1 min read

June 4

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

1 min read

118 - Code Coverage and 100% Coverage

1 min read

117 - Python extension for VS Code - Brett Cannon

1 min read

116 - 15 amazing pytest plugins - Michael Kennedy

2 min read

May 5

115 - Catching up with Nina Zakharenko

2 min read

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

1 min read

113 - Technical Debt - James Smith

1 min read

112 - Six Principles of Readable Tests - David Seddon

1 min read

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

1 min read

April 3

110 - Testing Django - from unittest to pytest - Adam Parkin

1 min read

109 - Testing in Financial Services - Eric Bergemann

1 min read

108 - PySpark - Jonathan Rioux

1 min read

March 4

107 - Property Based Testing in Python with Hypothesis - Alexander Hultnér

1 min read

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

1 min read

105 - TAP - Test Anything Protocol - Matt Layman

1 min read

104 - Top 28 pytest plugins - Anthony Sottile

1 min read

February 4

103 - Django - Lacey Williams Henschel

1 min read

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

1 min read

101 - Application Security - Anthony Shaw

1 min read

100 - A/B Testing - Leemay Nassery

1 min read

January 2

99 - Software Maintenance and Chess

1 min read

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

1 min read

2019 36

December 2

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

2 min read

96 - Azure Pipelines - Thomas Eckert

1 min read

November 2

95 - Data Science Pipeline Testing with Great Expectations - Abe Gong

1 min read

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

1 min read

October 4

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

1 min read

92 - 9 Steps to Crater Quality & Destroy Customer Satisfaction - Cristian Medina

1 min read

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

1 min read

90 - Dynamic Scope Fixtures in pytest 5.2 - Anthony Sottile

1 min read

September 4

89 - Improving Programming Education - Nicholas Tollervey

1 min read

88 - Error Monitoring, Crash Reporting, Performance Monitoring - JD Trask

1 min read

87 - Paths to Parametrization - from one test to many

1 min read

86 - Teaching testing best practices with 4 testing maxims - Josh Peak

1 min read

August 3

85 - Speed Up Test Suites - Niklas Meinzer

1 min read

84 - CircuitPython - Scott Shawcroft

1 min read

83 - PyBites Code Challenges behind the scenes - Bob Belderbos

1 min read

July 3

82 - pytest - favorite features since 3.0 - Anthony Sottile

1 min read

81 - TDD with flit

2 min read

80 - From Python script to Maintainable Package

1 min read

June 3

79 - Fixing misinformation about software testing

1 min read

78 - I don't write tests because ...

1 min read

77 - Testing Complex Systems with Maintainable Test Suites

1 min read

May 4

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

1 min read

75 - Modern Testing Principles - Alan Page

2 min read

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

1 min read

73 - PyCon 2019 Live Recording

1 min read

April 2

72 - Technical Interview Fixes - April Wensel

1 min read

71 - Memorable Tech Talks, The Ultimate Guide - Nina Zakharenko

2 min read

March 3

70 - Learning Software without a CS degree - Dane Hillard

1 min read

69 - Andy Hunt - The Pragmatic Programmer

1 min read

68 - test && commit || revert (TCR) - Thomas Deniffel

2 min read

February 4

67 - Teaching Python in Middle School

1 min read

66 - Brian is interviewed by Phil Burgess

1 min read

65 - one assert per test

1 min read

64 - Practicing Programming to increase your value

1 min read

January 2

63 - Python Corporate Training - Matt Harrison

1 min read

62 - Python Training - Reuven Lerner

1 min read

2018 28

December 7

61 - A retrospective

1 min read

60 - 100 Days of Code - Julian Sequeira

1 min read

59 - Genesynth, nox, urllib3, & PyCascades - Thea Flowers

1 min read

58 - REST APIs, testing with Docker containers and pytest

1 min read

57 - What is Data Science? - Vicki Boykis

1 min read

56 - Being a Guest on a Podcast - Michael Kennedy

2 min read

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

1 min read

November 3

54 - Python 1994 - Paul Everitt

1 min read

53 - Seven Databases in Seven Weeks - Luc Perkins

1 min read

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

1 min read

October 4

51 - Feature Testing

1 min read

50 - Flaky Tests and How to Deal with Them

1 min read

49 - tox - Oliver Bestwalter

2 min read

48 - A GUI for pytest

1 min read

September 2

47 - Automation Panda - Andy Knight

1 min read

46 - Testing Hard To Test Applications - Anthony Shaw

1 min read

August 1

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

1 min read

July 3

44 - Mentoring - Nina Zakharenko

1 min read

44 - Preparing for Technical Talks with Kelsey Hightower - bonus episode

1 min read

43 - Kelsey Hightower - End to End & Integration Testing

1 min read

June 1

42 - Using Automated Tests to Help Teach Python - Trey Hunner

1 min read

April 2

41 - Testing in DevOps and Agile - Anthony Shaw

1 min read

40 - On Podcasting - Adam Clark

1 min read

March 3

39 - Thorough software testing for critical features

1 min read

38 - Prioritize software tests with RCRCRC

1 min read

37 - What tests to write first

1 min read

February 2

36 - Stephanie Hurlburt - Mentoring and Open Office Hours

1 min read

35 - Continuing Education and Certificate Programs at UW

1 min read

2017 8

December 1

34 - TDD and Test First

1 min read

November 1

33 - Katharine Jarmul - Testing in Data Science

1 min read

October 1

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

2 min read

September 1

31 - I'm so sick of the testing pyramid

1 min read

July 1

30 - Legacy Code - M. Scott Ford

1 min read

June 1

29 - Kobiton & QASymphony - Josh Lieberman

1 min read

April 1

28 - Chaos Engineering & Experimentation at Netflix - Casey Rosenthal

1 min read

February 1

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

1 min read

2016 18

December 2

25 - Selenium, pytest, Mozilla – Dave Hunt

1 min read

26 - pyresttest – Sam Van Oort

1 min read

November 1

24 - pytest - Raphael Aurich

1 min read

September 2

23 - Lessons about testing and TDD from Kent Beck

2 min read

22 - Converting Manual Tests to Automated Tests

1 min read

August 1

21 - Terminology - test fixtures, subcutaneous testing, end to end testing, system testing

1 min read

July 1

20 - Talk Python To Me - Michael Kennedy

1 min read

June 1

19 - Python unittest - Robert Collins

1 min read

April 2

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

1 min read

17 - The Travis Foundation - Laura Gaetano

1 min read

March 2

16 - Welcome to Test and Code

1 min read

15 - Lean Software Development

1 min read

February 4

14 - Continuous Integration with Travis CI – Josh Kalderimis

1 min read

13 - Ian Cordasco – Betamax

1 min read

12 - Coverage.py with Ned Batchelder

2 min read

11 - pytest assert magic

1 min read

January 2

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

1 min read

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

1 min read

2015 7

December 1

8 - Agile vs Agility - Agile Is Dead (Long Live Agility)

1 min read

October 2

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

1 min read

6 - Writing software is like nothing else

1 min read

September 3

5 - Test Classes - No OO experience required

1 min read

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

1 min read

3 - Why test?

19 min read

August 1

2 - Pytest vs Unittest vs Nose

10 min read