Testing & Quality

Sten Pittet, Co-founder & CEO, Tability

The Atlassian team discusses different types of software testing, such as unit, integration, functional, end-to-end, acceptance, performance, and smoke tests, as well as when manual vs automated testing is appropriate.

Cindy Sridharan, Infrastructure Engineer, imgix

Whether or not you choose to test in production based on reading this, this article will give you a fundamental understanding of real-world testing constraints. It covers: • Why test in production when one can test in staging? • The Art of Testing in Production • The Three Phases of “Production”: Deploy, Release, Post-Release • Testing in Production during the Deploy Phase

Eric Elliot, Computer Scientist, Adobe

Eric shares how test-driven development has helped his teams reduce the number of critical bugs that are released to production, save development time, and write better code.

Shani Fedida, Back End Developer, Wix

Shani shares a tip for splitting the second step of TDD, making tests pass, into two steps: making the new test pass, and making all previous tests pass.

Eric Elliot, Computer Scientist, Adobe

Eric reviews why developers should bother with test discipline and how to write a good unit test by asking the questions: What are you testing? What should it do? What is the actual output? What is the expected output? How can the test be reproduced?

Dan Jarvis, Mobile Engineering Manager, Capital One

Dan shares real world examples of automated tests that helped with finding fundamental design issues, discovering a broken dependency, and preventing functional problems.

Sam Hatoum, Founder, Xolv.io

Jason Pearson, Head of Product Support, Figma

Shortly after Jason joined Figma, the whole company paused their projects for a major spring cleaning of the product in the form of a quality week. Jason describes the process for executing it.