While built-in fixtures are a great help, they cannot address the specific needs of our applications. It is now time to have a closer look on how to create our own fixtures. This post is part of my journey to learn Python. You can find the other parts of this series here. Why not …
Fixtures are a powerful feature in pytest. You can write your own fixtures as a replacement for setup and teardown methods or use the built-in ones to access common functionality. This post has a closer look to the fixtures that come directly with pytest and shows you how to use them. This post is part …
I prefer code that throws an exception as soon as it detects an unrecoverable situation. This is annoying but a lot less troublesome as when those errors go unnoticed to production. How can we test if our code throws the expected exceptions? This post is part of my journey to learn Python. You can find …
While trying to get a better understanding of pytest fixtures, I noticed a little problem: I could not see the output of the print() statements in my code. Let’s look why this happens and how we can change it. This post is part of my journey to learn Python. You can find the other parts …
Flask is a great framework, but before I continue with more elaborate parts I need to make sure that the code I wrote until now keeps working. Let’s look how we can test our code in Python. This post is part of my journey to learn Python. You can find the other parts of this …
We all wanted to be in Norway for NDC Oslo 2020, but Covid-19 made that impossible. As with most other conferences in 2020, there was no way to make this an in-person event. The NDC crew and Dylan Beattie did their best to create the typical NDC feeling at an online-only conference. I was surprised …
Visual regression testing is the last part I write about the NDC Oslo 2020 workshop Front End Web Fundamentals hosted by Amy Kapernick (@amys_kapers). This kind of testing is a nice extension to my testing toolbox and can help you to get an alarm when you unintentionally change your user interface. How does visual …
Last week I attended the NDC Oslo 2020 online workshop Front End Web Fundamentals hosted by Amy Kapernick (@amys_kapers). She is a front end developer and speaks at conferences from NDC to Microsoft Build. If you want to learn about HTML and CSS, you should read her blog (and attend her workshop). The workshop started …
We use Selenium and Firefox to verify our BDD specifications. That combination worked well until the last update to Firefox 75. Instead of our application on the developer machine, Firefox only showed us the “Your connection is not secure error” overlay. We depend on fast feedback cycles and needed a solution quickly. I found some …
It is the time of the year where most new year’s resolutions are already forgotten. Should you still want to learn new things I have a great podcast for your. It is not about the shiny new frameworks, instead it will help you to improve your existing applications. The podcast Legacy Code Rocks! hosted by …