ConfrontJS 2023 – The Movie
On March 2023 I gave the keynote at ConfrontJS in Warsaw. I spoke about how we can become more professional as developers, my 5 tips for becoming such, and a final most-important take-home message to the audience.
How to write Unit Tests for Tauri Frontend with Vitest?
Starting a project for me usually starts with setting up the testing infrastructure. The only exception is when one already exists. In this article we will learn two things. We will start from setting up vitest in the Tauri project. …
How Can Tests Contribute to Communication?
Tests can improve communication and save time (and frustration). Bad tests can do the opposite. In this article, we’ll explore an example from real life of how bad tests are harmful and how good ones convey the right information.
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A Tale of Implementation and Detail
As a testing advocate, I frequently delve into “implementation details” and “public interfaces.” These terms refer to the inner workings of your API and how it’s presented to users. Rather than just defining them, let’s explore …
How to Write Unit Tests in Rust for Tauri?
Tauri is a desktop apps framework built with Rust for its backend and JavaScript for its front end. The first thing I like to do in a project is set up a unit tests infrastructure. I found it surprisingly easy …
Live Session: 3 Tips for More Meaningful Tests
In 12 minutes, I shared with my colleagues three tips I used to refactor tests of legacy code. Testing the API, ensuring the tests fail for the right reason, and avoiding the coupling pitfall are exhibited in this live …
Live Coding an Open Source Feature
How do I approach a new feature in an open source project? How do I TDD a frontend feature? What do we use for cross-browser testing? All this and more in this live coding session recording
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The One Trick to Writing Effective Tests
How do you know your test is effective? How do you know your test protects you from breaking changes? And how can you do TDD without doing TDD? The best distillment of TDD taken from a TDD workshop in JFokus.…
3 Simple Habits to Improve Your Tests
How can tests be your best documentation? What small changes can improve the contract between your code and its consumers? Learn how to improve your tests from a real-world example.
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How to Build a Chrome Extension that will Make Your Facebook Posts Better?
How to build a chrome extension, manipulate and interact with a page and publish it to the Chrome Web Store? Here’s how I created a Chrome extension that enables me to style the text in my posts and comments – …