Python Test
Brian Okken
Recent Episodes
I'm starting a SaaS project using Django, and there are tons of decisions right out of the gate.
To help me navigate these decisions, I've brought on Cory Zue.
Cory is the creator of SaaS Pegasus, and has tons of experience with Django.
Some of the topics discussed:
- Building Django applications
- SaaS Pegasus
- placecard.me
- What boilerplate projects are
- Django cookiecutter
- Cookiecutter
- Which database to use, probably PostgreSQL
- Authentication choises, probably Allauth
- Docker, Docker for development, Docker for deployment
- Deployment targets / hosting services. Render, Heroku, Fly.io, for PaaS options.
- Front end frameworks. Bootstrap, Tailwind, DaisyUI, TailwindUI
- HTMX vs React vs straight Django templates
- Rockets
- Font Awesome
- and of course, SaaS Pegasus
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- Whether your new to testing or pytest, or just want to maximize your efficiency and effectiveness when testing.
Nicole is a software engineer and writer, and recently wrote about the trade-offs we make when deciding which tests to write and how much testing is enough.
We talk about:
- Balancing schedule vs testing
- How much testing is the right about of testing
- Should code coverage be measured and tracked
- Good refactoring can reduce code coverage
- Is it worth testing error conditions?
- Are rare error codes ok to just monitor?
- API drift and autospec
- Mitigating risk
- Deciding what to test and what not to test
- Focus testing on key money-making features
- If there's a bug in this part of the code, how much business impact is there?
- Performance testing needs to approximately match real world workloads
- Cost of a service breaking vs the cost of creating, maintaining, and running tests
- Keeping test suites quick to minimize getting distracted
Links:
- Too much of a good thing: the trade-off we make with tests
- Load testing is hard, and the tools are... not great. But why?
- Yet Another Rust Resource (YARR!)
- Goodhart's law - "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure"
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- Use code PYTEST for 20% off PyCharm Professional at jetbrains.com/pycharm
- Now with Full Line Code Completion
- See how easy it is to run pytest from PyCharm at pythontest.com/pycharm
The Complete pytest Course
- For the fastest way to learn pytest, go to courses.pythontest.com
- Whether your new to testing or pytest, or just want to maximize your efficiency and effectiveness when testing.
If you've ever thought about starting a podcast or a SaaS project, you'll want to listen to this episode.
Justin is one of the people who motivated me to get started podcasting.
He's also running a successful SaaS company, transistor.fm, which hosts this podcast.
Topics:
- Podcasting
- Building new SaaS (software as a service) products
- Balancing work, side hustle, and family
- Great places to snowboard in British Columbia
BTW. This episode was recorded last summer before I switched to transistor.fm.
I'm now on Transistor for most of a year now, and I love it.
Links from the show:
- Transistor.fm - excellent podcast hosting, Justin is a co-founder
- How to start a podcast in 2024
- Podcasts from Justin
- Build your SaaS - current
- Build & Launch - an older one, but great
- MegaMaker - from 2021 / 2022
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- Use code PYTEST for 20% off PyCharm Professional at jetbrains.com/pycharm
- Now with Full Line Code Completion
- See how easy it is to run pytest from PyCharm at pythontest.com/pycharm
The Complete pytest Course
- For the fastest way to learn pytest, go to courses.pythontest.com
- Whether your new to testing or pytest, or just want to maximize your efficiency and effectiveness when testing.
Charlie Marsh and team are using Rust to make Python tooling faster.
- Ruff can take the place of Flake8, isort, and Black, and so much more.
- uv can take the place of pip, pip-tools, and virtualenv
- Astral is Charlie's venture backed company, and what they have with `ruff` and `uv` is just the start.
Since uv is the newest tool, there's quite a bit of the discussion diving into uv.
Links:
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The Complete pytest Course
- For the fastest way to learn pytest, go to courses.pythontest.com
- Whether your new to testing or pytest, or just want to maximize your efficiency and effectiveness when testing.
Software engineers that move into leadership roles have a struggle between learning leadership skills, maintaining technical skills, and learning new leadership and technical skills.
Matt Makai went from individual contributor to developer relations to leadership in devrel.
We discuss how to stay technical, as well as dive into some results of his studies in how companies use developer relationship channels.
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- See how easy it is to run pytest from PyCharm at pythontest.com/pycharm
The Complete pytest Course
- For the fastest way to learn pytest, go to courses.pythontest.com
- Whether your new to testing or pytest, or just want to maximize your efficiency and effectiveness when testing.