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Hillel Wayne - Beyond Unit Tests: Taking Your Testing to the Next Level - PyCon 2018

Hillel Wayne's PyCon 2018 talk on testing beyond pytest and mypy. It introduces property-based testing with the Hypothesis library and design-by-contract with dpcontracts, and shows how to combine them with an existing test suite.

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Why HN readers recommended it

HN commenters point to it as a concise, convincing case for better testing practice short of full formal methods.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
PyCon 2018
Topic
property-based testing
Format
talk
Level
intermediate
HN recommenders in dataset
3
HN mentions in dataset
3
Recommendation years in dataset
2018–2023

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From the original HN conversations

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  • I found this talk (by the same person being interviewed) to be concise and convincing on how to do better than typical practice, without going to full formal methods. Hillel Wayne - Beyond Unit Tests: Taking Your Testing to the Next Level - PyCon 2018 …

    jononor on Hacker News · 2019-04
    In The Case for Formal Methods

  • Some of my favorite talks from Strange Loop: * Contracts For Getting More Programs Less Wrong: [LINK] * "It's Just Matrix Multiplication": Notation for Weaving: [LINK] * Hackett: a metaprogrammable Haskell: [LINK] * Git from the Ground Up: [LINK] From PyCon: * Beyond Unit Tests: …

    sn9 on Hacker News · 2018-12
    In Ask HN: Best talks of 2018?

  • Most of the non-joyful experience of writing tests lies in the context preparation, not so much in the expected outputs. I think we need a modern version of design by contract instead. Its one of the most powerful techniques of testing software is unfortunately often …

    spion on Hacker News · 2023-01
    In What if writing tests was a joyful experience?

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