Tech Nuggets and Thoughts

What is Coderetreat

What is GDCR

The success of GDCR event in Pune

The spiritual aspects of Coderetreat! ( ;-) )

How to run your own Coderetreat

Codereteat is not a hackathon!

Letting go! (of your code)

Our favorite constraints

What we learnt from the event

Why should you have a Coderetreat?

jUnit, TestNG feature overview

Mocha and Chai: bdd and tdd styles

Cobertura and Istanbul, nyc

Cucumber, Feature Files and verbosity

Introducing Cucumber to teams

Spock

End-to-end testing / integration testing tools: Selenium, Appium

End-to-end API testing: Postman

Contract Tests: Pact, Spring Cloud Contract

Smoke Tests, testing in production and reverting on failure.

Mocking Tools: JMockit, Mockito and PowerMock, Wiremock

Your acceptance tests are next layers integration tests.

Test FIRST: Repeat-ability

Fiasco in testing time based code: time zones, time adjustments, leap years, day light saving

Calendar trivia

Testing multi-threaded code

Parallel tests, and test isolation

DRY and Wet

Assertions in unit tests and coverage

Mutation testing

Should we trust coverage? How much coverage is enough?

Peer Confidence

To mock or not to mock, that is the question!

Types of changes in code: structural and behavioural

Fast tests make you fast

Learning Tests

Broken console.log

Single asserts in tests

Tests and code handover.

Why trust tests?

Slow tests, leaving process boundaries and unpredictability in tests.

What are: test doubles, mocks, dummies, stubs, spies and fakes?

To mock or not to mock.

This is the forth episode of podcast “Tech Nuggets and Thoughts”. In this episode, we talk about Unit Testing covering points such as: What is testing? What are software requirements? The test pyramid Importance of business in software and what it means for testing. Test principles: F.I.R.S.T Test First approach What is a unit, in unit testing? To get updates, you can subscribe to the podcast on: Apple iTunes, Google Podcasts, player.fm, RSS feed, FeedBurner, Stitcher Radio or TuneIn . If you have any... Read More Read More

We talk about software testing touching points as:

1. What is testing?

2. What are software requirements?

3. The test pyramid

4. Importance of business in software and what it means for testing.

5. Test principles: F.I.R.S.T

6. Test First principle

7. What is a unit, in unit testing?

This is the third episode of podcast “Tech Nuggets and Thoughts”. To get updates, you can subscribe to the podcast on: Apple iTunes, Google Podcasts, player.fm, RSS feed, FeedBurner, Stitcher Radio or TuneIn . If you have any suggestions, thoughts or recommendations, please feel free to comment below. You can also reach me on podcast’s twitter handle @TechNggets or my personal account @nikhilwanpal. (If the fancy player above does not work, try the bare bones player below.)

Circular Depedency is cyclic depedency between classes, packages, modules or services. It adversely affects software's health and productivity of developers.

Here we discuss how to identify, avoid and solve circular dependency in software. We discuss how it arises at all levels of abstraction in software, whether it is good or bad, tools we can use to identify and eliminate the depdency.

This is the second episode of podcast “Tech Nuggets and Thoughts”.   Some docs on git flow: The blog that brought it to us: http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/ git flow scripts project discussed in podcast: https://github.com/petervanderdoes/gitflow-avh A superb cheat sheet for git flow: https://danielkummer.github.io/git-flow-cheatsheet/   To get updates, you can subscribe to the podcast on: Apple iTunes, player.fm, RSS feed. If you have any suggestions, thoughts or recommendations, please feel free to comment below. You can also reach me on podcast’s twitter handle @TechNggets or my personal account @nikhilwanpal. (If the fancy player... Read More Read More

Git is an amazing version control system. Very popular and extremely powerful. Git flow is a branching strategy for git which can make setting development and devops practices very easy. In this podcast we see what Git flow is and how it helps.

A little bit more about git flow: http://nikhilwanpal.in/blog/podcast-tech-nuggets-and-thoughts-episode-2-intro-to-git-flow