A test that passed every single time I ran it on its own, and failed maybe one run in five when I ran the whole suite. The failure was always the same: the self-update test downloaded a release archive, went to extract …
I’m going to tell you about a bug go-tool-base shipped, because it’s one of those bugs that’s so reasonable-looking you’ll find it in textbooks, conference talks, and an awful lot of otherwise excellent Go code. We had …
“You can’t test code that calls an AI.” I’ve heard it said with great confidence, and it’s half right, which is the most dangerous kind of right. You genuinely can’t assert on what a non-deterministic model says. But the …
I have a slightly complicated relationship with BDD. I’ve watched it turn a tangled test suite into something the whole team could read and reason about, and I’ve watched it turn a perfectly good unit test into a …
I recently had to do some load testing for a site recently that would allow me to test in excess of 100k requests in a 60 second period… So I decided to do some testing using JMeter as it seemed like a suitable tool for …