add testing resources

mattmakai · mattmakai · commit feddc67aeeff · 2019-12-29T13:00:51.000-05:00
diff --git a/content/pages/02-development-environments/15-application-dependencies.markdown b/content/pages/02-development-environments/15-application-dependencies.markdown
@@ -220,6 +220,11 @@ developers.
   a configuration for ensuring tests run against your code and how to
   properly package your project.
 
+* [12 Alternatives for Distributing Python Applications in 2020](https://tryexceptpass.org/article/distributing-python-applications/)
+  covers packaging with [Docker](/docker.html), Vagrant, PyInstaller, 
+  Briefcase, virtual environments, Pipx and several more options for
+  bundling and running Python code.
+
 * [Python Application Dependency Management in 2018](https://hynek.me/articles/python-app-deps-2018/)
   presents some critical analysis and critique oof the existing Python
   dependency management tools including newer ones such as pipenv and
diff --git a/content/pages/04-web-development/35-testing.markdown b/content/pages/04-web-development/35-testing.markdown
@@ -85,6 +85,16 @@ test runners, coverage reports and related libraries.
 * [Python Testing](http://pythontesting.net/) is a site devoted to testing
   in - you guessed it - the Python programming language.
 
+* [In praise of property-based testing](https://increment.com/testing/in-praise-of-property-based-testing/)
+  is an article by the author of the [Hypothesis](https://hypothesis.works/)
+  testing tool written in Python. The article explains the shortcomings of 
+  example-based tests and how property-based testing can augment or replace
+  those example-based tests to find more defects in software. There is also
+  a great 
+  [introductory post on Hypothesis](https://hypothesis.works/articles/incremental-property-based-testing/)
+  that goes into further detail about getting your first Hypothesis tests
+  up and running.
+
 * Google has a [testing blog](http://googletesting.blogspot.com/) where
   they write about various aspects of testing software at scale.
 
diff --git a/content/pages/04-web-development/36-unit-testing.markdown b/content/pages/04-web-development/36-unit-testing.markdown
@@ -102,6 +102,11 @@ Python-specific applications.
   is the transcript of an interview with Robert Collins who is a core
   committer of `unittest`.
 
+* [Precise Unit Tests with PyHamcrest](https://orbifold.xyz/pyhamcrest.html)
+  is a short tutorial on using the 
+  [PyHamcrest](https://github.com/hamcrest/PyHamcrest) assertion tool for
+  unit testing.
+
 * [Why most unit testing is a waste](https://rbcs-us.com/documents/Why-Most-Unit-Testing-is-Waste.pdf)
   discusses how low risk unit tests rarely fail even as the code
   changes and why they do not matter as much to a project's health as
diff --git a/content/pages/04-web-development/42-websockets.markdown b/content/pages/04-web-development/42-websockets.markdown
@@ -272,6 +272,12 @@ Python.
   [handy WebSockets reference chart](http://caniuse.com/#feat=websockets) 
   for which web browsers and specific versions support WebSockets.
 
+* [WebSockets for fun and profit](https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/12/18/websockets-for-fun-and-profit/)
+  has a nice concise overview of WebSockets alternatives like long polling
+  and Server-Sent Events (SSE) before it goes into a WebSockets example
+  that includes [JavaScript](/javascript.html) code for the client-side
+  implementation.
+
 * Mozilla's 
   [Developer Resources for WebSockets](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebSockets)
   is a good place to find documentation and tools for developing with 
