slashdot_media_senior_python_engineer_test

A python test for the position: Senior Python Engineer at SlashDot Media, Inc.

Python Software Engineer Questions

Please put your responses in line below in red.

[Questions 1]

Questions 1

Pretend that an API exists at https://example.com/api/products which returns:

        `[{"product": "Shoes", "price": 35, "rating": 4.2},
        {"product": "White Hat", "price": 21, "rating": 4.8},
        ...]`

1. Write a function in Python to consume this API.
2. Write another function for business logic to find all products rated 4 and above.
3. Write enough unit / integration tests to completely cover the code in both functions.

Answer 1:

Find answers in the three files in the answer folder

INSTALLATION:

Create a new python project and copy the files in the answer folder into the newly created project. then install the following packages using pip.

pip install pytest asyncio[standips] aiohttp
pip install install pytest-asyncio pytest-austin pytest-cov

To run test

python -m pytest test_product.py --asyncio-mode=strict --cov --profile-mode=all