Python Testing Cookbook 2nd Edition is coming!

By Greg Turnquist

Greg L. Turnquist worked on the Spring team for over thirteen years and is a senior staff technical content engineer at Cockroach Labs. He was the lead for Spring Data JPA and Spring Web Services. He wrote Packt's best-selling title, Learning Spring Boot 2.0 2nd Edition, and its 3rd Edition follow-up along many others.

June 2, 2017

I had totally forgotten about this, but back in February, Packt Publishing approach me about writing a 2nd Edition to Python Testing Cookbook. This is a title I wrote back in 2011, and from which I still get royalty checks! It’s not huge. In fact, it’s more symbolic than anything. I get real a warm fuzzy knowing people are still using this book today to test their Python apps.

I declined the offer back in February, because I felt neither qualified to write it, nor motivated since I’ve shifted to writing Spring-based books. An email showed up two days ago that had been stuck in an acquisition editor’s drafts for months. They have found another author (congrats, Packt!), but since he or she can potentially use my material, they are dealing me in a slice of the royalty pie for this new work.

Yippee!

I wish this author the best of luck. And I appreciate that I’m being rewarded for past effort by being a part of this new one as well. It just goes to show that writing a book can open doors you never see happening.

Happy writing!

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