In this episode I interview Ned Batchelder.
I know that coverage.py is very important to a lot of people to understand how much of their code is being covered by their test suites.
Since I'm far from an expert on coverage, I asked Ned to discuss it on the show.
I'm also quite a fan of Ned's 2014 PyCon talk "Getting Started Testing", so I definitely asked him about that.
We also discuss edX, Python user groups, PyCon talks, and more.
Some of what's covered (pun intended) in this episode:
- coverage.py
- types of coverage
- Line coverage
- branch coverage
- Behavior coverage
- Data coverage
- How Ned became the owner of coverage.py
- Running tests from coverage.py vs running coverage from test runner.
- types of coverage
- edX
- what is it
- what Ned's role is
- Ned's blog
- Ned's PyCon 2014 talk "Getting Started Testing"
- Teaching testing and the difficulty of the classes being part of unittest
- fixtures package
- some of the difficulties of teaching unittest because of it's class based system.
- the history of classes in unittest coming from java's jUnit implementation
- Boston's Python Group
- PyCon in Portland
- Ned to do a talk here "Machete mode debugging".
- Practicing PyCon talks at local group meetings.
- At the very least, practice it in front of a live audience.
Links:
- Ned Batchelder
- Coverage
- Coverage documentation
- django-nose
- pytest-django
- edX
- open edX
- Boston Python User Group
- Portland Python User Group - I need to go to these
- PyCon 2016 - Planning on attending, it's in Portland. Yay!
- Getting Started Testing - Ned's 2014 Pycon talk
Special Guest: Ned Batchelder.
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