matteodt
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Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
Thanks for the clarification!
By the way, I am going to add a reference to fuzz testing after your mention.
Comment · 3 years ago
Thanks for the kind words! They did certainly motivate me :)
Comment · 3 years ago
Interesting bit about sane logic. Is it something you verify manually by reading the pull request code? Or do you rather expect automated tests that use something like spies to check when a control structure is called?
In my coding life, I had a period where I was super into test driven development with mocks and I believe I was doing something very similar to what you called sane logic check. However, I later dropped this approach in favor of heavily parametrized tests where checks happen only on the output of functions and on side effects when necessary (e.g. an email is sent or a row is updated in the database).
Note: I am using this Martin Fowler's definition for "spies": https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TestDouble.html
Comment · 3 years ago
I started writing it during the Covid pandemic (2021), then I stopped when roughly half of the chapters were complete.
I am starting again now with the idea of finishing it by the end of 2023, but I wanted to give it another try here on HN to collect some feedback as my first submission went completely unnoticed.
What you mentioned about backend/frontend is actually very cool. In my original plan I wanted to produce three compendia: 1. Software design 2. Software architecture 3. Tech leadership
Still in my mind, but considering I am yet to complete the first one, it is going to take a while :)
Let me know if you ever go down that road! I would be very curious to read it.
I believe many concepts mentioned in the compendium are still valid for the functional paradigm, but definitely the examples are not.
Thanks for the input! I'll reason about how to reconciliate OO and FP once I finished the remaining chapters!