The Testing Trophy and Testing Classifications
How to interpret the testing trophy for optimal clarity
On the Diverse And Fantastical Shapes of Testing
There are arguments about whether a testing portfolio should be a pyramid or more like honeycomb. My second biggest issue with this argument is that it's rendered opaque by the fact that it's not clear what people see as the difference between unit and integration tests.
Front-End Testing is For Everyone
Testing is one of those things that you either get super excited about or kinda close your eyes and walk away. Whichever camp you fall into, I’m here to tell
Still Hoping for Better Native Page Transitions
It would be nice to be able to animate the transition between pages if we want to on the web without resorting to hacks or full-blown architecture choices to
Flaky Tests: Getting Rid Of A Living Nightmare In Testing — Smashing Magazine
Unreliable tests are a living nightmare for anyone who writes automated tests or pays attention to the results. Flaky tests have even given folks nightmares and sleepless nights. In this article, Ramona Schwering shares her experiences to help you get out of this hell or avoid getting into it. It’s important to continually hunt for flaky tests, whether by preventing them in the first place or by d
Capturing Every Change From Shopify’s Sharded Monolith - Shopify
Shopify’s data warehouse has gone through many iterations since the company's founding in 2004. Since then, the data warehouse has evolved and grown into a data lake, compromising multiple storage mechanisms, systems, and consumers.
Day 52: testing how many Firecracker VMs I can run
Day 52: testing how many Firecracker VMs I can run
Day 23: a little Rails testing
Day 23: a little Rails testing
Revamping the Android testing pipeline at Dropbox
Static Typing for Ruby - Shopify
A look at how Shopify adopted static typing in it's core Ruby monolith by treating type checking like a product.
Under Deconstruction: The State of Shopify’s Monolith - Shopify
It’s been 18 months since we talked about our Rails modular monolith. We lay out the current state of the work, and things we’d do differently if we started again.
Testing Implementation Details
Testing implementation details is a recipe for disaster. Why is that? And what does it even mean?
Information And Information Architecture: The BIG Picture — Smashing Magazine
Information architecture is the process of categorizing and organizing information to create structure and meaning. To give this context, in this article Carrie Webster explores not only the basics of information architecture, but also the broader view of the information age, how we use information and how it impacts our world and our lives. Understanding the bigger picture enables us to get a muc
When I follow TDD
Test-Driven Development doesn't always make sense, here's when it does for me.
How do cars do in out-of-sample crash testing?
Accepting Payments (including Recurring Payments) on WordPress.com
I'm a fan of building websites with the least amount of technical debt and things you have to be responsible for as possible for what you wanna do. Sometimes
The Serverlist: Built with Workers, Single-Tenant Architecture, and more!
Check out our fourteenth edition of The Serverlist below. Get the latest scoop on the serverless space, get your hands dirty with new developer tutorials, engage in conversations with other serverless developers, and find upcoming meetups and conferences to attend.
Migrating from VPN to Access
With so many people at Cloudflare now working remotely, it's worth stepping back and looking at the systems we use to get work done and how we protect them. Over the years we've migrated from a traditional "put it behind the VPN!" company to a modern zero-trust architecture.
dropbox_hook.py: a tool for testing your webhooks
Architecture of Nautilus, the new Dropbox search engine
Refactoring Legacy Code with the Strangler Fig Pattern - Shopify
There are strategies for reducing the size and responsibilities of large objects. Here’s one that worked for us at Shopify, an all-in-one commerce platform supporting over 1M merchants across the globe.
Offensive testing to make Dropbox (and the world) a safer place
Getting Started with Front End Testing
Amy Kapernick covers four types of testing that front-end devs could and should be doing:
Minecraft: A Pattern Language
The Mediator Pattern
Testing Methods: The Ugly Duckling
Why testing is much more important than most methodologists realize..
MDA: Revenge of the Modelers or UML Utopia?
At OOPSLA 2003 Dave Thomas (the founder of OTI) gave a thoughtful and powerful critique of Model Driven Architecture. In this column he explains why he thinks a universal model-driven approach is likely to fail, and points out that the UML and Domain Specific Languages still have value.
Who Needs an Architect?
What is architecture, and who exactly is an architect? These are questions that seem to get everyone very heated. So in this IEEE Software column, I let Ralph Johnson explain about architecture: with a definition that matches all others in a way that nobody agrees with. I also talk about two sub-species of architect: Architectus Reloadus and Architectus Oryzus .
The Difference between Marketecture and Tarchitecture
When we think about software architecture, we usually think about its technical architecture. But there's also another important architecture - the one we use to communicate with the customers of the software: the marketing architecture. Neglecting this “marketecture”, and its relationship with the “tarchitecture”, can get development projects into a lot of trouble.
How to implement an image gallery using Baseline features
Image galleries are a common user interface pattern on the web. Learn how to create one using Baseline features.
Progressive Web Apps in multi-origin sites
Multi-origin architecture presents many challenges when building PWAs. Explore the good and bad uses of multiple origins, and some workarounds to build PWAs in multi-origin sites.
Synchronized cross-device mobile testing
Pyramid or Crab? Find a testing strategy that fits
Discover how to combine different testing types into a reasonable strategy that matches your project.
Three common types of test automation
Let's start with the basics! Exploring the two general testing modes and three common types of test automation.
WebRTC is now a W3C and IETF standard
A brief overview of the history, architecture, use cases, and future of WebRTC.
Introducing Learn Testing | Blog
Today we are launching Learn Testing-learn about various test types, testing environments and test automation