Tag Archives: software development

Testing is Your Best Investment

Posted on August 25, 2014 by way0utwest

I signed up for the FlowCon 2014 conference in San Francisco this September. It’s a two day event about software development and how we can do better. My job is starting to encompass more work in this area, and I’m excited to … Continue reading →

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Production Subsets

Posted on August 22, 2014 by way0utwest

Continuous delivery recommends developers never use production data. It’s too big, too cumbersome, and slows the process too much. Developers should have enough data to determine if their solutions work as they build them. Testing should have enough to do … Continue reading →

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Bronze Age Development

Posted on August 21, 2014 by way0utwest

I was watching a presentation on testing recently where the speaker noted that on one project he’d spent twice as much time testing as coding. That sounds like an outrageous amount of time, but my concern was tempered when he … Continue reading →

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Updating tsqlt

Posted on August 20, 2014 by way0utwest

I was looking to write a new test with the tsqlt framework recently. I wanted to isolate a stored procedure’s logic and planned on using the FakeFunction procedure available in tsqlt. I wrote my test, using a template from the … Continue reading →

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