Test & Code - Python Testing & Development

Anthony Shaw joins Brian to discuss flaky tests and flaky test suites. What are flaky tests? Is it the same as fragile tests? Why are they bad? How do we deal with them? What causes flakiness? How can we fix them? How can we avoid them? Proactively rooting out flakiness Test design GUI tests Sharing solutions Special Guest: Anthony Shaw.Sponsored By: DigitalOcean: Get started with a free $100 credit Links: Dropbox article on flaky tests Microsoft article on flaky tests pytest-rerunfailures: a py.test plugin that re-runs failed tests up to -n times to eliminate flakey failures pytest-randomly: Pytest plugin to randomly order tests and control random.seed pytest-random-order: pytest plugin to randomise the order of tests with some control over the randomness math.isclose() numpy.isclose() pytest.approx() — approx Anthony's testing article on RealPython Ghost Inspector wily: A Python application for tracking, reporting on timing and complexity in tests If you like Test & Code, I think you'll also like P