Follow the Postgres brick road: a journey of testing against a real database server @PyConAU
Follow the Postgres brick road: a journey of testing against a real database server  @PyConAU
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(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.

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