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Keynote - Preventing, Finding, and Fixing Bugs On a Time Budget | Raymond Hettinger @ PyBay2018

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What it is

Raymond Hettinger's PyBay 2018 keynote on preventing, finding and fixing bugs under a time budget. He covers testing practice, type annotation tradeoffs and the limits of coverage metrics.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN cites it in Python testing and code quality threads, including his point that 100% coverage proves little.

  • 1 people recommended it
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  • 0 strong recommendations
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What HN commenters said

  1. “This is a good talk by the core developer Raymond Hettinger [1].”

    Good talk on testing by a Python core developer

    Rendello, 2021-03 · Recommendation · in “My Python testing style guide (2017)”

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Topics: python, testing, debugging, raymond hettinger, code coverage

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