2 videos · 2 events · 2023–2024 · 1h 11m of video
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DjangoCon US 2024 · December 6, 2024
Marc Gibbons uses software versioning as a framework for personal change. He explains that a 2.0 release does not need to be revolutionary: it signals intentional breaking changes, and he connects this idea to leaving music, becoming a developer, surviving Hodgkin lymphoma, and confronting alcohol…
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DjangoCon US 2023 · December 14, 2023
Marc Gibbons argues that tests should protect a system’s behavior and users’ outcomes, not the particular implementation used to produce them. Using a loan amortization example, he shows how direct imports, request-factory tests, private-method assertions, and mocks can create implementation bias: tests pass while the…