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Zac Hatfield-Dodds

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Hi there, and thanks for thinking of sponsoring me!

I'm a researcher @3ainstitute - that's Autonomy, Agency, and Assurance, at the Australian National University. I spend my time there reading, thinking, talking, and teaching about what's happening as we embed sensing, learning, communicating, and acting computers in everything else. Everyone's talking about cars, but what about medical devices? Trains? Elections?

My open-source work aims to help everyone write better software, lately by making testing easier and much more effective. I'm a core developer of Hypothesis (and some extensions) and a Pytest maintainer. On the side, I've spent 2019 trying to get the scientific stack to adopt property-based testing, with some small successes!

I often speak about testing at conferences - for example a practical intro to Property-Based testing at PyCon US and an expert deep-dive on 'Sufficiently Advanced Testing' at PyCon Australia. There's also the hands-on workshop version.

Sponsorship funding helps me to cover the costs of stickers, pins, posters, and web hosting to get the word out; as well as travel for conferences (Australia is a long way from anywhere, even New Zealand). Every bit helps - so thanks!

@Zac-HD

Knowing that there are five people out there who like my projects enough to sponsor them would mean a lot to me!

Current sponsors 1

@honno
Past sponsors 4
@Kludex
@Stranger6667
@samuelcolvin
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Featured work

  1. HypothesisWorks/hypothesis

    Hypothesis is a powerful, flexible, and easy to use library for property-based testing.

    Python 7,591
  2. pytest-dev/pytest

    The pytest framework makes it easy to write small tests, yet scales to support complex functional testing

    Python 12,171
  3. python/cpython

    The Python programming language

    Python 63,684
  4. pandas-dev/pandas

    Flexible and powerful data analysis / manipulation library for Python, providing labeled data structures similar to R data.frame objects, statistical functions, and much more

    Python 43,880
  5. Zac-HD/hypothesmith

    Hypothesis strategies for generating Python programs, something like CSmith

    Python 97

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This tier gets you a warm fuzzy feeling and my sincere appreciation 😍, and gets me a hot (or iced) chocolate ☕.
Thanks for financially supporting open source!

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Sticker Supporter: this tier gets you a thank-you pack of Hypothesis stickers to go with the warm fuzzies from the tier above ❤️, and helps me to purchase enough of those stickers to give away at meetups and conferences.

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You're a serious contributor now, and to recognise that you'll get everything above along with an exclusive hard enamel dragonfly pin. This funding helps me to attend conferences and sprints to move the Python ecosystem forward ✨😀.

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Corporate sponsor: your company uses code that I maintain, such as hypothesis-jsonschema, and wants to support development directly - thanks! At this tier you're making a significant contribution to my open-source work, helping to justify the time and travel involved 💖💖.

If you're interested in commercial support, hands-on training in advanced testing, or expert code review, please contact me by email to discuss a consulting engagement.