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

PyCon 2018 · talk · Watch on YouTube

Testing, debugging & developer toolsPython, Ruby & scripting languagesLogic & formal methods

What it is

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.

Why Hacker News recommends it

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

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2018, last 2023

What HN commenters said

  1. “I found this talk (by the same person being interviewed) to be concise and convincing on how to do better than typical practice”

    Concise, convincing talk on better testing without full formal methods.

    jononor, 2019-04 · Strong recommendation · in “The Case for Formal Methods”

  2. “Some of my favorite talks from Strange Loop”

    Listed among favorite PyCon talks.

    sn9, 2018-12 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: Best talks of 2018?”

  3. “Hilel Wayne's excellent video on this topic”

    Property-based testing of whole systems via contracts, by Hillel Wayne.

    spion, 2023-01 · Recommendation · in “What if writing tests was a joyful experience?”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: hypothesis, contracts, python, testing, formal methods

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