Test & Code

In today's podcast, I dodge the question of "What do you think of Agile?" by reading an essay from Dave Thomas

The waterfall model has been used and modified and changed and rebelled against since before I started programming. Waterfall such an important character in the story of software development that we should get to know it a better.

My experience with writing software comes from my experience: where I grew up, what eras I lived through, what my economical and geographical experiences have been, when I learned to code, and what projects I've worked on.

Setup and Teardown Benefits of Test Fixtures code reuse cleanup of resources errors vs failures focusing your thinking on what you are testing and what you are not scoping for efficiency Brief look at pytest named fixtures References pytest fixtures series pytest fixtures nuts & bolts pytest session scoped fixtures unittest fixtures nose fixtures mentioned in introduction nose fixture reference post how to run a single class

Setup and Teardown Benefits of Test Fixtures code reuse cleanup of resources errors vs failures focusing your thinking on what you are testing and what you are not scoping for efficiency Brief look at pytest named fixtures References pytest fixtures series pytest fixtures nuts & bolts pytest session scoped fixtures unittest fixtures nose fixtures mentioned in introduction nose fixture reference post

Answering a listener question. Why testing? What are the benefits? Why automated testing over manual testing? Why test first? Why do automated testing during development? Why test to the user level API? After describing my ideal test strategy and project, I list: Business related, practical benefits of testing Personal reasons to embrace testing Pragmatic, day to day, developer benefits of testing

I list my requirements for a framework and discuss how Pytest, Unittest, and Nose measure up to those requirements. Mentioned: pytest unittest nose delayed assert pytest-expect doctest I did the audio processing differently for this episode. Please let me know how it sounds, if there are any problems, etc.