Brian Okken
Software Engineer, also on Python Bytes and Python People podcasts
Appears in 221 Episodes
131: Test Smarter, Not Harder
Some people avoid writing tests. Some drudge through it painfully. There is a better way. In this episode, I'm going to share some advice from Luke Plant on how to "Te...
130: virtualenv activation prompt consistency across shells - an open source dev and test adventure - Brian Skinn
virtualenv supports six shells: bash, csh, fish, xonsh, cmd, posh. Each handles prompts slightly differently. Although the virtualenv custom prompt behavior should be ...
129: How to Test Anything - David Lord
I asked people on twitter to fill in "How do I test _____?" to find out what people want to know how to test. Lots of responses. David Lord agreed to answer them with ...
128: pytest-randomly - Adam Johnson
Software tests should be order independent. That means you should be able to run them in any order or run them in isolation and get the same result. However, system s...
127: WFH, WTF? - Tips and Tricks for Working From Home - Reuven Lerner & Julian Sequeira
Many people have been working from home now that are not used to working from home. Or at least are working from home more than they ever did before. That's definitely...
126: Data Science and Software Engineering Practices ( and Fizz Buzz ) - Joel Grus
Researches and others using data science and software need to follow solid software engineering practices. This is a message that Joel Grus has been promoting for some...
125: pytest 6 - Anthony Sottile
pytest 6 is out. Specifically, 6.0.1, as of July 31. And there's lots to be excited about. Anthony Sottile joins the show to discuss features, improvements, documentat...
124: pip dependency resolver changes
pip is the package installer for Python. Often, when you run pip, especially the first time in a new virtual environment, you will see something like: WARNING: Y...
123: GitHub Actions - Tania Allard
Lots of Python projects are starting to use GitHub Actions for Continous Integration & Deployment (CI/CD), as well as other workflows. Tania Allard, a Senior Cloud De...
122: Better Resumes for Software Engineers - Randall Kanna
A great resume is key to landing a great software job. There's no surprise there. But so many people make mistakes on their resume that can very easily be fixed. Rand...
121: Industrial 3D Printing & Python, Finite State Machines, and Simulating Hardware - Len Wanger
Len Wanger works on industrial 3D printers. And I was pleased to find out that there's a bunch of Python in those printers as well. In this episode we talk about: ...
120: FastAPI & Typer - Sebastián Ramírez
FastAPI is a modern, fast (high-performance), web framework for building APIs with Python based on standard Python type hints. Typer is a library for building CLI appl...
119: Editable Python Installs, Packaging Standardization, and pyproject.toml - Brett Cannon
There's stuff going on in Python packaging and pyproject.toml. Brett and I talk about some upcoming work on Python packaging, such as: editable installs the need fo...
118: Code Coverage and 100% Coverage
Code Coverage or Test Coverage is a way to measure what lines of code and branches in your code that are utilized during testing. Coverage tools are an important part...
117: Python extension for VS Code - Brett Cannon
The Python extension for VS Code is most downloaded extension for VS Code. Brett Cannon is the manager for the distributed development team of the Python extension fo...
116: 15 amazing pytest plugins - Michael Kennedy
pytest plugins are an amazing way to supercharge your test suites, leveraging great solutions from people solving test problems all over the world. In this episode Mic...
115: Catching up with Nina Zakharenko
One of the great things about attending in person coding conferences, such as PyCon, is the hallway track, where you can catch up with people you haven't seen for poss...
114: The Python Software Foundation (PSF) Board Elections - Ewa Jodlowska / Christopher Neugebauer
"The mission of the Python Software Foundation is to promote, protect, and advance the Python programming language, and to support and facilitate the growth of a diver...
113: Technical Debt - James Smith
Technical debt has to be dealt with on a regular basis to have a healthy product and development team. The impacts of technical debt include emotional drain on engine...
112: Six Principles of Readable Tests - David Seddon
"Code is read much more often than it is written." - Guido van Rossum This is true for both production code and test code. When you are trying to understand why a tes...
111: Subtests in Python with unittest and pytest - Paul Ganssle
In both unittest and pytest, when a test function hits a failing assert, the test stops and is marked as a failed test. What if you want to keep going, and check mor...
110: Testing Django - from unittest to pytest - Adam Parkin
Django supports testing out of the box with some cool extensions to unittest. However, many people are using pytest for their Django testing, mostly using the pytest-d...
109: Testing in Financial Services - Eric Bergemann
Financial services have their own unique testing development challenges. But they also have lots of the same challenges as many other software projects. Eric Bergema...
108: PySpark - Jonathan Rioux
Apache Spark is a unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing. PySpark blends the powerful Spark big data processing engine with the Python programming la...
107: Property Based Testing in Python with Hypothesis - Alexander Hultnér
Hypothesis is the Python tool used for property based testing. Hypothesis claims to combine "human understanding of your problem domain with machine intelligence to im...
106: Visual Testing : How IDEs can make software testing easier - Paul Everitt
IDEs can help people with automated testing. In this episode, Paul Everitt and Brian discuss ways IDEs can encourage testing and make it easier for everyone, includin...
105: TAP: Test Anything Protocol - Matt Layman
The Test Anything Protocol, or TAP, is a way to record test results in a language agnostic way, predates XML by about 10 years, and is still alive and kicking. Matt L...
104: Top 28 pytest plugins - Anthony Sottile
pytest is awesome by itself. pytest + plugins is even better. In this episode, Anthony Sottile and Brian Okken discuss the top 28 pytest plugins. Some of the plugins...
103: Django - Lacey Williams Henschel
Django is without a doubt one of the most used web frameworks for Python. Lacey Williams Henschel is a Django consultant and has joined me to talk about Django, the Dj...
102: Cosmic Python, TDD, testing and external dependencies - Harry Percival
Harry Percival has completed his second book, "Architecture Patterns with Python". So of course we talk about the book, also known as "Cosmic Python". We also discuss ...