Topic: Testing
2025
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Thing I Made: CFWeaver
I made a simple CLI tool to generate comprehensive test scenarios from control flow models in simple markdown -
Book Club 1/25: Results, Railways, and Decisions
A story on a successful result and insights gained from some more heady research this month. -
Testing Logging in ASP.NET Core
Comprehensive integration tests may need to validate that specific logs are output in certain conditions. Luckily, this is very easy in ASP.NET Core.
2024
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It's Okay to be a Bit Techy in Your Gherkin
Gherkin tests are meant to be an abstraction over the code of automated tests to facilitate collaboration by all stakeholders, but that shouldn't mean that we banish any technical whiffs from them. -
Book Club 2/2024: Recovering from TDD and Unit Tests
TDD and unit tests are overused and often misprescribed. What do we really hope to gain from our tests, and what testing practices support our goals?