Software-Engineering

(first post in a series) Like many others, I spent a lot of time thinking about AI and software development. I belong to the camp that believes that AI is a total paradigm shift - it’ll redefine the ecosystem and what it means to create software, and it’ll be the deepest change we have seen to date. My own “flavor” of thinking about this is to try, from an engineering / implementation perspective, to understand what that change could look like. This blog series will dig into this and share my thoughts and conclusions from experimentation. I’ll talk about both: ...

This is a series of posts, following a talk I gave (twice - at Pycon-US 2023 and Pycon-IL 2024), about testing best (and not-so-best) practices. The talk shares 10 practices that I had bad experience with, along with ways of avoiding them. The main objective of the post series is to help you write tests that have a better ROI. I’ll discuss different practices, different ways that we can work. These practices affect us by changing the properties of our tests: ...

This mini-post is part of a series about good testing practices, which I also presented at a couple of conferences. Here it is in PyCon US 2023 This is a “warm-up footgun” to the blog post series. The easiest way to shoot yourself in the foot, testing-wise, is to have no tests at all. In my experience, writing any tests often helps us - even if these tests are not well-written, and even if they’re just a drop in the sea. ...