Brian Okken

What is the difference between a unit test, an integration test, and a system test? Mahmoud Hashemi helps me to define these terms, as well as discuss the role of all testing variants in software development. What is the difference between a unit test, an integration test, and a system test? - TDD - testing pyramid vs testing column - the role of testing in software development - web...

http://pythonbytes.fm/13 - CPython -> GitHub - Dropbox stepping back from Pyston - metaclasses, lamdas ...

http://pythonbytes.fm/12 * Python Functions aren’t what you think: Functions are objects. The name of a function is just a variable name referring to the object. * The Tao of Python: Jupiter notebook discussion of the relationship between objects, classes, and metaclasses. * Why Learn Python? Here Are 8 Data-Driven Reasons * Testing Python Applications with Pytest * A million requests per...

https://pythonbytes.fm/11 * Pipfile, pip, and virtualenv * Django 2.0 dropping Python 2.7 support * attrs for cleaner classes * Python benchmarking and profiling * Getting Python 3 into more distributions * Home automation with Home Assistant

* Dismissing Python's Garbage Collection * PyPI Name Reservations * Hackers Exfiltrate US Government Data to Save Itself * Advanced Time Series Plots * Type Hints and mypy * Understanding the underscore

* PyDataDC 2016 videos are out * easyargs * safety-db * fast-style-transfer * pip 9.0 * sentiment analysis using reddit data

pytest is an extremely popular test framework used by many projects and companies. In this episode, I interview Raphael Pierzina, 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.