145: For Those About to Mock - Michael Foord
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 docsMocks Aren't Stubs - Martin Fowlerpytest-mockmock.patchAutospeccingArrange Act Asserttesting-in-python mailing listClassical and Mockist Testing — Classical and Mockist Testing Test First Programming / Test First Developmentepisode 102: Cosmic Python, TDD, testing and external dependencies - Harry Percivalepisode 132: mocking in Python - Anna-Lena Popkespytestunittest - Python docspytest assert usage30 best practices for software development and testing | Opensource.com