Posts tagged: testing

💭 THE STANDUP - Coding DIRTY Episode 7

2025-05-07T18:00:09Z

“Gradually roll out your releases to a small group of people”

~ roughly what prime said (I’m listening live)

This really hit home with me, tests can be so good at making sure that we dont repeat bugs and that laser focused things work, tests are generally small and focused, but this does not replace some sort of integration testing. These days very few things are written as a monolith, and hence there are a lot of interactions that really need to play well together accross various systems.

They call out Crowdstrike here, which took down the world blue screening critical windows systems everywhere in 2024. It was revealed that a small changed was rushed through and skipped critical rollout paths since it seemed like a small change. Crowdstrike also runs at a super low kernel level of access and a small memory bug can kill the system.

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This post is a thought. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts

💭 Hurl - Run and Test HTTP Requests

2024-12-14T16:41:38Z

Hurl - Run and Test HTTP Requests

Hurl, run and test HTTP requests with plain text and curl. Hurl can run fast automated integration tests.

hurl.dev

Hurl was mentioned by @gerhard on the latest changelog and Friends. Looks like a feature rich easy to use testing tool that is tested via what looks like a config file.

Hurl is a command line tool that runs HTTP requests defined in a simple plain text format. It can chain requests, capture values and evaluate queries on headers and body response. Hurl is very versatile: it can be used for both fetching data and testing HTTP sessions. Hurl makes it easy to work with HTML content, REST / SOAP / GraphQL APIs, or any other XML / JSON based APIs.

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This post is a thought. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts

💭 inline-snapshot

2024-04-17T18:37:15Z

Redirecting

15r10nk.github.io

This is a cool snapshot testing tool that automatically creates, and updates test values for you.

Starting with some test code.

from inline_snapshot import snapshot


def something():
    return 1548 * 18489


def test_something():
    assert something() == snapshot()

now if I run pytest my tests will fail because my assert will fail, but if I run pytest --inline-snapshot=create it will fill out my snapshot values and the file will then look like this.

from inline_snapshot import snapshot


def something():
    return 1548 * 18489


def test_something():
    assert something() == snapshot(28620972)

Note

This post is a thought. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts