Test & Code - Python Testing & Development

A discussion about mocking in Python with the original contributor of unittest.mock, Michael Foord. Of course we discuss mocking and unittest.mock. We also discuss: testing philosophy unit testing and what a unit is TDD where Michael's towel is, and what color Micheal was instrumental in the building of testing tools for Python, and continues to be a pragmatic source of honest testing philosopy in a field that has a lot of contradictory information. Full TranscriptSpecial Guest: Michael Foord.Sponsored By: PyCharm Professional: Try PyCharm Pro for 4 months and learn how PyCharm will save you time. Promo Code: TESTANDCODE22Links: unittest.mock - Python docs Mocks Aren't Stubs - Martin Fowler pytest-mock mock.patch Autospeccing Arrange Act Assert testing-in-python mailing list Classical and Mockist Testing — Classical and Mockist Testing Test First Programming / Test First Development episode 102: Cosmic Python, TDD, testing and external dependencies - Harry Percival episode 132: mocking in Python - A