Elixir Releases: Moving Past Elixir 1.8 and Distillery 2.0
Elixir 1.9 has been released with built-in support for releases, a need that was previously served (and continues to be) by the Distillery package.
Continue Reading Discussion: Problem Solving and Learning on the Job as a Software Engineer
A while back several Revelers were chatting in Slack about learning and working as a software engineer. Some interesting ideas were being thrown around about programming problem solving and learning on the job, so we decided to record a discussion. What follows is a rough summary of some of the things we learned. How does […]
Continue ReadingMy Introduction to Property Testing
Lately I’ve been exploring various automated testing techniques, and it’s about time I got to property-based testing, also known simply as property testing. I think the easiest way to explain property-based testing is to contrast it with example-based testing, which is by far the most common type of automated testing. If we were building an […]
Continue ReadingHow Well-Tested Is Your Code? Try Mutation Testing to Really Understand
Mutation testing involves running your test suite many times, modifying the application code in different ways to see if the tests catch the change.
Continue ReadingDoing Algebra in Code: Looking Past the Details To Focus on the Math
The hard part of this was recognizing the algebra beneath layers of domain-specific business rules.
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