Posts by Frank Wiles

Fixtures are building blocks for good tests and can increase development speed. The main issue with writing tests is setting up necessary data before the test, but pytest fixtures make it easier by injecting necessary data into your tests.

Find out the details of our origin story along with examples of some of the more interesting projects we've tackled in our history.

Developers are the largest expense with software. Improving their productivity doesn't just make sense to the company's bottom line, but it improves morale as they no longer have to wade through a bunch of crap to get started on the job at hand. This data generation technique helps improve your developer experience and testing.

A simple import trick to make it easy to keep your django-ninja view functions in different Django apps and files.

Sometimes you want your FloatFields to be nullable, but your JS code isn't quite smart enough to handle it.

I created a simple `r` shell alias that will take me to the root of the current git repository. As this is a common thing I need to do on my Mac BookPro when I've been exploring deep into a code base and now need to run some command at the root.

How to smartly keep a set of Django ORM objects in order for drag-n-drop like situations.

django-test-plus has long been a useful helper library with Django. Now we've added some simple pytest fixture support to make it even more useful!

Ran into a weird error with coverage, pytest, and Travis today and wanted to document an easy fix when you get a 'import file mistmatch' error from pip packages you do not control.

Smaller and faster Python 3.6.x images for you to take advantage of.