Category Archives: Coding
CoffeeScript vs. TypeScript vs. Dart
Software often requires two or three iterations before you get it right. In our case this led to starting a rewrite of our hybrid mobile application. It had been developed over several years by a diverse group of people with … Continue reading
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No-nonsense ASCII chart
There are a lot of ASCII charts floating around the Internet. However all of them seem to have a few fundamental problems: They include the whole ASCII set in the chart and cram too much information of each char, making … Continue reading
Documenting Cucumber steps
One of the great things in Cucumber testing is that as you go along, you start to accumulate ready step definitions, which makes writing new tests even faster. Several times I’ve actually been surprised that a definition for a step … Continue reading
Dump World on failure
One of the most important aspects of test reports is that when something fails, you can easily debug what went wrong. Splitting tests into logical, small tests that exercise a single functionality in the system goes a long way toward … Continue reading
API testing with Cucumber
In our project we have a REST API using JSON that is used both internally by our mobile clients and offered externally to third parties. Since we were consolidating all functional testing to Cucumber, it was natural to experiment what … Continue reading
