Why all developers should adopt a safety-critical mindset
Is anyone designing software where failures don't have consequences?
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How AI apps are like Google Search
Happy New Year! In this episode, Ryan talks with Jetify founder and CEO Daniel Loreto, a former engineering lead at Google and Twitter, about what AI applications have in common with Google Search. They also discuss the challenges inherent in developing AI systems, why a data-driven approach to AI development is important, the implications of non-determinism, and the future of test automation.
“You don’t want to be that person”: What security teams need to understand about developers
The home team is joined by Kinnaird McQuaid, founder and CTO of NightVision, which offers developer-friendly API and web app security testing. Kinnaird talks about his path from school-age hacker to white-hat security expert, why it’s important to build security practices into the software development lifecycle, how GenAI is changing security testing, and what security teams need to understand about developers’ working lives.
Would you board a plane safety-tested by GenAI?
Ben and Ryan are joined by Robin Gupta for a conversation about benchmarking and testing AI systems. They talk through the lack of trust and confidence in AI, the inherent challenges of nondeterministic systems, the role of human verification, and whether we can (or should) expect an AI to be reliable.
Throwing away the script on testing (Ep. 583)
Syed Hamid, founder and CEO of no-code test automation platform Sofy, joins Ben and Ryan to talk about scriptless automation, why his platform targets mobile app developers, and what he learned in nearly two decades at Microsoft.
Stop requiring only one assertion per unit test: Multiple assertions are fine
One test case, not one test assertion.
How Stack Overflow is leveling up its unit testing game
We neglected unit tests for a long time because our code base made them difficult. But now we're putting in the work to change that.
Rewriting Bash scripts in Go using black box testing
When rewriting software in a new language, how do you test that your new and old programs do the same thing?
Debugging best practices for REST API consumers
How you can debug the APIs that you consume but don't own.
Favor real dependencies for unit testing
Which dependencies should be present in your code base? This article suggests an answer to that question.
Building a QA process for your deep learning pipeline in practice
Deep learning models still need testing, but many of the common testing approaches don't apply. But with the right methods, you can still make sure your pipeline produces good results.
Why you should build on Kubernetes from day one
If you’re building a new app today, it might be worth taking a closer look at making it cloud-native and using Kubernetes from the jump. The effort to set up Kubernetes is less than you think. Certainly, it’s less than the effort it would take to refactor your app later on to support containerization.
