The Psychology of Testing by Miško Hevery (Jan. 18, Palo Alto)

On January 18, 2011, at 6pm, Wealthfront in Palo Alto, Calif. will host the 3rd talk in our “Lean Startup for Geeks” series: The Psychology of Testing by Miško Hevery. Miško is a well-known agile coach with many contributions to the open-source world such as AngularJS, the Testability Explorer, and the js-test-driver. After a short… Read more

Lean Startup for Geeks at Wealthfront: Miško Hevery on the Psychology of Testing

On January 18, 2011, at 6pm, Wealthfront will host the 3rd talk in our “Lean Startup for Geeks” series. We will be welcoming Miško Hevery, a well-known agile coach with many contributions to the open-source world such as AngularJS, the Testability Explorer, and the js-test-driver. Miško, who has inspired countless engineers to test effectively, will… Read more

Factory > Fixtures

In general, using fixtures in testing is a big no no. Not only does it become a maintenance nightmare, it can also significantly slow down your test suite. Instead, the general practice should be to build out factories. I personally like using machinist for its terse syntax, but because our front end stack relies on…

Trust, but Remind

Every engineering organization faces the problem of how to ensure that things are done right. At Wealthfront, our appoach is a safety net of extremely thorough automated testing that guides the engineer to do the right thing. Automation is consistent. It doesn’t skip a code review because we’re in a hurry. It doesn’t fail to… Read more

Less IO for your Unit Tests with a Java SecurityManager

Our quest for a truly test-driven engineering team has enabled us to confidently ship our software every few minutes. Automated testing is the keystone of continuous deployment, and as a result our unit tests and smoke tests are thorough. Perhaps, a bit too thorough. (Our last unit testing extravaganza in the form of a cyclomatic-complexity-driven… Read more

A Fix-It Day with Cyclomatic Complexity

It is here that the stereotype of the programmer, sitting in a dim room growling from behind Coke cans, has its origins. The disorder of the desk, the floor; the yellow Post-It notes everywhere; the whiteboards covered with scrawl: all this is the outward manifestation of the messiness of human thought.   The messiness cannot… Read more