2015_08_black_tux.md

August Meetup at The Black Tux

Featured topic: Testing

Speakers

John Mitchell, Practical Testing

• "Agile Testing" book by Lisa Crispin

• Nose testing library (includes coverage plugin)

• fake objects (/Models) with plausible data for emails and names: factory-boy and faker

• make and mock network API calls with requests/responses

• freeze time with freezegun

• override any functions with Mock (in Python3, backported to Python2)

Philip Tyler, Discrete Event Simulation

• SimPy https://simpy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

• code https://github.com/philiptyler

Umut Yildiz, Astrophysics