Testing

3 talks from the 2023 edition.

Behind the Scenes of tox: The Journey of Rewriting a Python Tool with more than 10 Million Monthly Downloads

Jürgen Gmach

tox is a widely-used tool for automating testing in Python. In this talk, we will go behind the scenes of the creation of tox 4, the latest version of the tool. We will discuss the motivations for the rewrite, the...
FastAPI and Celery: Building Reliable Web Applications with TDD ▶ Recording 📝 Transcript

Avanindra Kumar Pandeya

In this talk, we will explore how to use the FastAPI web framework and Celery task queue to build reliable and scalable web applications in a test-driven manner. We will start by setting up a testing environment and...
Fear the mutants. Love the mutants. ▶ Recording 📝 Transcript

Max Kahan

Developers often use code coverage as a target, which makes it a bad measure of test quality. Mutation testing changes the game: create mutant versions of your code that break your tests, and you'll quickly start to...