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SE Radio 589: Zac Hatfield-Dodds on Property-Based Testing in Python
Episode 589

SE Radio 589: Zac Hatfield-Dodds on Property-Based Testing in Python

Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers · SE Radio

November 9, 202356m 47s

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Show Notes

Zac Hatfield-Dodds, the Assurance Team Lead at Anthropic, speaks with host Gregory M. Kapfhammer about property-based testing techniques and how to use them in an open-source tool called Hypothesis. They discuss how to define properties for a Python function and implement a test case in Hypothesis. They also explore some of the advanced features in Hypothesis that can automatically generate a test case and perform fuzzing campaigns.