pytest: It's What's For Testing

Presented by: Josh Karpel

Thursday, December 8 2022, 6:30 PM
Madison Public Library, 201 W Mifflin St, Room 302 [Map]
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pytest is the premier Python testing framework. It scales smoothly from small imperative tests all the way to huge test suites powered by metaprogramming, while maintaining a clean, DRY style. In this talk, we'll do a whirlwind, example-heavy tour of pytest's "killer features": assertion rewriting, fixtures, parameterization, hooks, and plugins.

Josh Karpel is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Workday where he designs and develops systems for connecting ML predictions to the outside world. Josh earned his PhD in physics at UW-Madison and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Morgridge Institute facilitating research computing at enormous scale through the Center for High Throughput Computing.