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Fireside Chat with Google's Kelsey Hightower @ MCR DevCon 2023

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Fireside Chat with Google's Kelsey Hightower @ MCR DevCon 2023

The fireside chat was hosted by Vernon Richards, an esteemed Coach & Tester who has devoted his career to helping organizations, teams, and individuals understand the intrinsic relationship between quality and testing. His work is centred around enabling others to build better products and deliver more effective services, truly embodying

Coding styles for Open Source Projects?

Coding styles for Open Source Projects?

This has also been published in ITNEXT How to maintain coding styles when contributing Something I forgot to mention in my previous article was the fact that the repository I was doing a pull request for had a guide for contributors. This post outlines how you can enforce coding standards

A practical guide to contributing to Open Source Projects

A practical guide to contributing to Open Source Projects

After contributing to a project for a while, you may start getting some mentions to help out with some pull requests. But most of the time you don’t even know where to start contributing. The thing is…you don’t really have to wait for a mention to start

Lock-step Refactoring in Node.js (Part 3)

Lock-step Refactoring in Node.js (Part 3)

The story thus far… In part two we refactored the Faker object into a class. This allowed us to inject it into our Ancient faker module. So now how to we use this to our advantage? Stubbing using Sinon Standalone test spies, stubs and mocks for JavaScript. Works with any

Lock-step Refactoring in Node.js (Part 2)

Lock-step Refactoring in Node.js (Part 2)

The story thus far… So in part one we refactored the Ancient faker module into a class. We updated the tests and everything was still working as expected 😎. So what do we do next? Why did we even start refactoring again? As I mentioned in part one, occasionally some of

Lock-step Refactoring in Node.js (Part 1)

Lock-step Refactoring in Node.js (Part 1)

I am the maintainer of an open source project called fakergem. It is basically a port of one of my favourite Ruby gems, faker. I enjoyed using faker so much that I wanted to have a similar experience when working with fake data in Node. The initial releases The start