Test & Code - Python Testing & Development

Building any software, including web apps and APIs requires testing. There's automated testing, and there's manual testing. In between that is exploratory testing aided by automation tools. Michael Kennedy joins the show this week to share some of the tools he uses during development and maintenance.We talk about tools used for semi-automated exploratory testing.  We also talk about some of the other tools and techniques he uses to keep Talk Python Training, Talk Python, and Python Bytes all up and running smoothly. We talk about:Postmanngroksitemap link testingscripts for manual processesusing failover servers during maintenance, redeployments, etcgitHub webhooks and scripts to between fail over servers and production during deployments automaticallyfloating IP addresses services to monitor your site: StatusCake, BetterUptimethe affect of monitoring on analyticscrash reporting: Rollbar, Sentryresponse timesload testing: LocusLinks:Python Bytes PodcastTalk Python To Me PodcastTalk Python TrainingPostmanngrokS