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SE Radio 589: Zac Hatfield-Dodds on Property-Based Testing in Python

<p>Zac Hatfield-Dodds, the Assurance Team Lead at Anthropic, speaks with host <a href="https://www.se-radio.net/team/gregory-kapfhammer/">Gregory M. Kapfhammer</a> about property-based testing techniques and how to use them in an open-source tool called Hypothesis. They discuss how to define properties for a Python function and implement a test case in Hypothesis. They also explore some of the advanced features in Hypothesis that can automatically generate a test case and perform fuzzing campaigns.</p>

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