S2 Episode 2 - Eleanor Boyd on Python Testing in VS Code

Sad Python Girls Club

Welcome to episode 2 of the second season of the Sad Python Girls Club Podcast! This time we had the pleasure to chat with Eleanor Boyd, Software Engineer at Microsoft, about her work on improving testing support for Python in VS Code 🧪🐍

Join us for an episode full of geeky tech talk 🤓 as we peel back the curtain on a major refactoring mission that is enabling the development of new testing features to come (😉😉 Django folks).

Links and resources:

• Eleanor Boyd @ GitHub
• pytest
• Pytest plugins
• unittest
• Python Packaging repository
• Feature request @ vscode-python to support Django unittests (from November 2017)
• Coverage.py
• VS Code's Test Coverage API proposal
• Python testing in VS Code documentation
• Episode 214 of the Python Test podcast, featuring Eleanor Boyd and Courtney Webster talking about their work on rolling out the changes on testing support for Python in VS Code.

Intro Song: Pastel

Producer: Blue.P

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