Jean-Dominique Nguele: Writer of Code – Blogger – Podcast host – Not listed in Forbes' 30 under 30.
Posted in Building future-proof software, and Personal projects
What is the HttpResponseSimulator? Apart from being the least original name. Well, it is a tool that allows simulating the behaviour you want from an endpoint to test an HTTP client and/or wrapper. I built it over an afternoon so that I could write a timeout test for an
A few weeks ago, I saw a pull request to modify one of our web jobs which codebase is pretty old and had no tests. The pull request had no tests either. The thing is that we decided to make unit testing mandatory for any pull requests a couple
I started reviewing the code when I noticed someone else already posted a review. A pretty laconic “please add tests”. Not a bad nor a mean review but not a really helpful one. Proof of it is that it was posted about an hour before and the pull request was blocked. Indeed we do not untested logic to enter or remain in our software. Yes, it is aligned with our new policy about tests. That being said, the
Time saving tube fail Nowadays, most tools we use exists to save time. In London to travel through public transports we have tons of options…
Posted in Building future-proof software, and Productivity
Test, four letters, one meaning and for some people a struggle. Getting people around you to write tests is easy only when everyone already agrees with you. As often, there are instances where some people show resistance to writing tests. Here
D: I don’t have time to write tests.
A: I don’t need to test this.
B: I can’t write a test for this.
Posted in Collaboration, and Productivity
Be right or “be right”, getting the truth on your side or winning an argument ? We find people doing both in many domains, both…
