Most of programs, services, scheduled jobs, scripts that we create are likely need to connect to an external resource to pull or push some data. External resource can be a database, distributed cache, message queue, object store and so on. In order to connect to a resources we need at minimum an address and a […]
How to make tests AWESOME
Some people may argue that automated tests are not worth of effort. But here is a kicker: time spent on creating and maintaining tests in many cases is completely justified by time saved on manual testing and re-testing. Another toll of not having automated test is cost of bugs (in time and money) caught late […]
pytest in 5 minutes
This post is a quick tutorial to pytest, an awesome testing framework for Python. The main goal of the tutorial is to show features of pytest that are most useful in day to day life. Who can benefit from this tutorial? Experienced developer, who uses Python occasionally and needs to rewind the syntax and features […]