PyCon AU 2024

Huon Wilson

Huon is a software engineer aiming to make others more effective. He's now writing and deploying Python extensively at ExoFlare, and has previously worked on dev tools and programming languages at Mozilla and Apple and machine learning research at CSIRO.


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huon_w

What pronouns do you use?

He/Him


Session

11-24
11:55
30min
Follow the Postgres brick road: a journey of testing against a real database server
Huon Wilson

Tests are good. Code that uses a database is good. Testing code that uses a database is great… But it's not so easy to do well. Let's follow our journey through various pitfalls to make testing against a local PostgreSQL instance informative, reliable and fast, so that we have fewer horrible surprises once code gets to production.

Main Conference
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