196 RR Testing Clojure in Ruby with Ashton Kemerling

About this Episode

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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)