Testing apps that use requests without using mock.
Interview with Ian Cordasco (@sigmavirus24)
Topics:
- Betamax - python library for replaying requests interactions for use in testing.
- requests
- github3.py
- Pycon 2015 talk: Ian Cordasco - Cutting Off the Internet: Testing Applications that Use Requests - PyCon 2015
- Pytest and using Betamax with pytest fixtures
- The utility (or uselessness) of teaching programming with Java (My own rant mainly)
- Rackspace and Ian’s role at Rackspace and OpenStack
- Python Code Quality Authority: flake8, pep8, mccabe, pylint, astroid, …
- Static code analysis and what to use which tool when.
- Raymond Hettinger - Beyond PEP 8 -- Best practices for beautiful intelligible code - PyCon 2015
Links:
- Testing Python-Requests with Betamax
- Cutting Off the Internet: Testing Applications that Use Requests - PyCon 2015
- github3.py
- requests
- Rackspace
- Openstack
- Python Code Quality Authority and documentation
- GitLab
- Raymond Hettinger - Beyond PEP 8 -- Best practices for beautiful intelligible code - PyCon 2015
Other Betamax resources:
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