Posted on Fri 19 June 2026 in TDDA, tutorial • Tagged with TDDA, talk, tutorial, video, library
I gave a tutorial on TDDA at PyData London 2026 earlier this month. The video is available on YouTube and below:
The slides are also available here.
Broadly, the talk included updated coverage of the traditional TDDA staples:
tdda library and command-line tools;Posted on Thu 31 October 2019 in TDDA • Tagged with reference test, exercise, screencast, video, pytest
This exercise (video 2m 58s)
shows a powerful way to run only a single test, or some subset of tests,
by using the @tag decorator available in the TDDA library.
This is useful for speeding up the test cycle and allowing you to focus
on a single test, or a …
Posted on Wed 30 October 2019 in TDDA • Tagged with reference test, exercise, screencast, video, unittest
This exercise (video 3m 34s)
shows a powerful way to run only a single test, or some subset of tests,
by using the @tag decorator available in the TDDA library.
This is useful for speeding up the test cycle and allowing you to focus
on a single test, or a …
Posted on Tue 29 October 2019 in TDDA • Tagged with reference test, exercise, screencast, video, pytest
This exercise (video 8m 54s) shows how to migrate a test from using pytest
directly to the exploiting the referencetest capabilities in
the TDDA library.
(If you do not currently use pytest for writing
tests, you might prefer the
unittest-flavoured version
of this exercise, since unittest is in Python's standard …
Posted on Mon 28 October 2019 in TDDA • Tagged with reference test, exercise, screencast, video, unittest
This exercise (video 8m 53s)
shows how to migrate a test from using unittest
directly to the exploiting the referencetest capabilities in
the TDDA library.
(If you use pytest for writing tests,
you might prefer the
pytest-flavoured version
of this exercise.)
We will see how even simple use of referencetest …