Silent Guardians of Quality
In the realm of software development, testers are the silent guardians. Their role is often misunderstood and underappreciated, especially when they do their job so well that no...
Articles tagged with Testing
Writing on verification, confidence, and the limits of test-driven certainty.
Why Metrics Don’t Equal Quality
In 1902, Hanoi was drowning in rats. The government was getting nervous about plague. Hence, the city put a bounty per rat tail. Suddenly, the system had a scoreboard, something...
Verifying passed arguments partially
Recently, I was working on a project and I missed a case in unit tests. I didn't want to verify each argument but rather wanted to check if an object has a certain attribute set...
You Know State Is NO Good
Every engineer learns this the hard way. You think the logic is solid, your tests are green, and your deployment goes smoothly. Looks all good, right? Then you have an outage. N...
Refactoring Untested Code
Most teams realize they are dealing with a legacy repo only when a tiny change turns into an operation. A oneline fix suddenly needs three people, two days of manual checks, and...
Duplicate code isn't that bad
Duplicate code isn’t something we usually want in our code for various reasons. The most obvious one is maintenance. When you change a piece of logic, you have to find every pla...
Mock methods that manipulate parameters
Recently, I've worked a little bit on cache for . I needed to mock a behavior of a method where the method manipulates given parameters e.g. change state or call another method....
A guide for Code Reviews
Code reviews shouldn’t be about ego. Still, every time you send one, you’re putting yourself out there. You want your work reviewed but at the same time it makes you vulnerable....
Yazılım Mühendisliği Mülakatlarına Hazırlık Rehberi
Yazılım mühendisliği mülakatları her geçen gün daha da zorlaşıyor. Mülakatlara iyi bir sonuç almak ise yılların birikimi ve insanın mülakat esnasındaki performansı ile doğru ora...
Buggy Code on Production, Survived
Areca is the name of the billing engine I am working on for Turk Telekom. Funny enough, it is also the name of the flowers we bought to freshen the office. We wanted the office...