13: Ian Cordasco – Betamax

Testing apps that use requests without using mock.

Interview with Ian Cordasco (@sigmavirus24)

Topics:

• Betamax - python library for replaying requests interactions for use in testing.
• requests
• github3.py
• Pycon 2015 talk: Ian Cordasco - Cutting Off the Internet: Testing Applications that Use Requests - PyCon 2015
• Pytest and using Betamax with pytest fixtures
• The utility (or uselessness) of teaching programming with Java (My own rant mainly)
• Rackspace and Ian’s role at Rackspace and OpenStack
• Python Code Quality Authority: flake8, pep8, mccabe, pylint, astroid, …
• Static code analysis and what to use which tool when.
• Raymond Hettinger - Beyond PEP 8 -- Best practices for beautiful intelligible code - PyCon 2015

Links:

• Testing Python-Requests with Betamax
• Cutting Off the Internet: Testing Applications that Use Requests - PyCon 2015
• github3.py
• requests
• Rackspace
• Openstack
• Python Code Quality Authority and documentation
• GitLab
• Raymond Hettinger - Beyond PEP 8 -- Best practices for beautiful intelligible code - PyCon 2015

Other Betamax resources:

• Betamaxing Boto3
• Using Betamax with pytest fixtures
• Isolated @memoize