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Extreme Testing at kaChing
A few months ago, I was invited to give a tech talk at Google about our testing practices. I finally got around to posting the slides, see below! During the talk, I presented how we achieved our extreme iteration cycle of 5 minutes commit-to-production cycle. Starting at a high level, we looked the two fundamental… Read more
Use a Before Method in Your Tests
When writing unit tests using the JUnit like frameworks, the mantra is to avoid any work in the class and prefer putting initialisation logic in a dedicated before method. Imagine you’re testing JSON manipulation and you have sample fixture data to work on. public class WhyUseBeforeTest { static Json.Array fixture = (Json.Array) Json.fromString(“[5,6]”); @Test public… Read more
Findbugs, Hudson and Pizza Driven Development (PDD)
As you may know kaChing (now Wealthfront) is an test driven engineering organization. Test driven is not an option, its a must. We move fast and push code to production few dozens of times a day in a five minutes release cycle, so we must have high confidence in our code. In complex systems there… Read more
Testing with Hibernate
Some of the unit tests I wrote lately involved setting up a data setup in the DB and testing the code using and mutating it. To make it clear, the DB is an in memory DB so the setup is super fast without IO slowdowns. Its very easy to do the setup using hibernate but… Read more
Parallelizing JUnit test runs
Test runs should be as fast as possible in order to allow a lean development cycle. One of the applications is a Continuous Deployment (see Lean Startup). Using strong multi-core machines to run tests is not enough since most unit tests are using a single thread per test. Apart of reducing IO to minimum, having… Read more
Complement TDD with MDA
Test Driven Development (aka TDD) is on the rise. Good developers understand that code with no proper testing is dead code. You can’t trust it to do what you want and its hard to change. I’m a strong believer in Dijkstra’s observation that “Program testing can be a very effective way to show the presence… Read more