Testing doesn’t always get the attention it deserves in software development. Many developers claim to be bad at it, or are just not that interested. (These may or may not be related.)
As developers, our job is to deliver working software. With the shift to CI/CD and the move to the cloud, the need to have the right feedback at the right time only increases. There are many ways that testing can help us with that. Not only can testing help us verify our solution and prevent us from breaking things, it can also help us design our software, find flaws in our architecture and come up with better solutions. In this talk I will highlight some of the many ways that testing can help you to develop better software faster.
Links
- Use Testing to Develop Better Software Faster (blog)
- 97 things every java programmer should know – edited by Kevlin Henney & Trisha Gee (book)
- Continuous Testing in DevOps… by Dan Ashby (blog)
- Testing From A Holistic Point Of View by Janet Gregory (blog)
- Have I Tried Enough Weird Stuff? by Elizabeth Zagroba (blog)
- Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses (blog)
- Big list of naughty strings (on GitHub)
- QA Engineer walks into a bar. by Bill Sempf (tweet / twitter thread)
- On Testing by Bill Sempf (blog)
- TestPyramid by Martin Fowler (blog)
- Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble & Gene Kim (book)
- Structure and Interpretation of Test Cases by Kevlin Henney (video)
- “Fix Your Flaky Tests” by Hanno Embregts (video)
- Testing hall of shame (code)
- Test your code Essential T-Shirt by Trish Khoo (t-shirt)
- Best life and thoughts from 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know by Kevlin Henney (video)
Presentations
| Date | Event | Location | Media |
| Aug 24, 2023 | Testµ (TestMu) conference | online | slides speaker page |
| Feb 9, 2023 | OOP 2023 Digital | online | slides talk page speaker page |
| Oct 6, 2022 | Voxxed Days Cluj-Napoca | Cluj-Napoca, Romania | slides video talk page |
| July 19, 2022 | JBCN Conf | Barcelona, Spain | slides video |
| June 8, 2022 | JSpring | Utrecht, the Netherlands | slides video |