Episode 202: 196 RR Testing Clojure in Ruby with Ashton Kemerling

Ruby Rogues

• Episode: Episode 202: 196 RR Testing Clojure in Ruby with Ashton Kemerling
• Website: Ruby Rogues
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• Duration: 01:15:20
• Published: 2015-02-25 13:00

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02:45 - Ashton Kemerling Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Blog

03:00 - Ruby and Clojure

• Pivotal Labs
• Pivotal Tracker
• Clojurescript
• Generative Testing
• PhantomJS
• Invariance

14:50 - Difficulty

• generative
• rantly

23:13 - Generative Testing and Documentation

• “Shrinking”

26:38 - Are Generative Tests Disposable?

• Capybara

29:09 - When Do You Start Generative Testing?

31:43 - Setup & Barriers to Entry

40:38 - Why Does Generative Testing Have a Bad Reputation?

42:49 - Getting Past ^^

44:17 - Verifying Things Are Fixed

46:57 - Maintaining These Tests

• Multimethods

51:12 - Human Actions, Generative Testing, and Architecture

• Functional Programming

01:02:10 - Resources

• [YouTube] Integrating Test.Check and Javascript
• Jessica Kerr: TDD with generative testing: an example in Ruby  
• Ashton Kemerling: Integrating Test.Check and Javascript

Picks

Joseph Wilk: Programming as Performance (Coraline)
Linda Liukas: Principles of Play (Coraline)
Hello Ruby (Coraline)
QuickCheck CI (Jessica)
CodeMesh 2014 - John Hughes - QuickCheck Evolution (Jessica)
GeeCON 2012: Kevlin Henney - It Is Possible to Do Object-Oriented Programming in Java (Avdi)
FUJITSU Image Scanner ScanSnap iX500 (Avdi)
FFmpeg (Chuck)
YouTube (Chuck)
Developer’s Box Club (Chuck)
Ruby Remote Conf (Chuck)
RailsCasts on Kickstarter (Chuck)
Datomic (Ashton)

Special Guest: Ashton Kemerling.