Tim Mertens

Father, Software Engineer, Cyclist, Humanist. Passionate about software testing & challenging the status quo. Leave the world better than you found it.

[Tim Mertens @rockfx01]

Trying to fix an intermittent test failure in your test suite? Follow this map to kill the dragon of "flaky" tests! #RubyConf (Repost with corrected image)

[Tim Mertens @rockfx01]

@BCBSIL An XSS error blocking access to your public website should not take months to resolve.

[Tim Mertens @rockfx01]

Hey @BCBSIL Your website is severely broken. The language lightbox pops up on page load and can't be closed by selecting an option or clicking the [x], making the entire website unusable when it appears. The lightbox has an XSS problem.

[Tim Mertens @rockfx01]

@BCBSIL 2 months since my first report and this major issue with accessing your website STILL isn't fixed. I've seen this across multiple computers over at least the last 4 months. This is a P0 severity defect if I ever saw one.

[Tim Mertens @rockfx01]

@cblatts "seek mentorship" is the thing that matters. Emphasize it more. Early in my career, I lacked mentorship even when I asked for it. When I got to a company that provided it, it increased my potential 10-fold. Now I mentor others to accelerate their growth and productivity.

[Tim Mertens @rockfx01]

@schwad_rb Your monads are showing

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@nateberkopec This is why engineering orgs need to establish and adhere to policies that treat intermittent failures as high priority defects. Otherwise the test suite is doomed to a death of a thousand cuts

[Tim Mertens @rockfx01]

@Austio36 @Cennydavidsson @dilrajio @nateberkopec Types definitely eliminate some classes of tests but regardless of typing, any mature "monolith" app can easily have tens of thousands of tests.

[Tim Mertens @rockfx01]

@mametter @schwad_rb @bsdzunk @ShopifyEng Only way I can get 4 is if I wrap the solution itself in a string eval. Feels like cheating but there weren't any rules against it 😂. I'm not sure lower than that is possible.

[Tim Mertens @rockfx01]

@jeremysmithco I wouldn't mind having an excuse to visit the area

[Tim Mertens @rockfx01]

@searls @caleb_hearth I can't comment on the PR but in declares_dry_class.rb on line 50 you declare `__mocktail_closure` locally and then appear to reference it inside the eval on line 66. Does eval correctly resolve local vars referenced in the block eval is called from?

[Tim Mertens @rockfx01]

@searls @caleb_hearth @searls This reminds me of building the verbalize gem. Some things you just can't do without eval.

[Tim Mertens @rockfx01]

@searls @JoshTGreenwood @tenderlove I dunno about time machine but I have a QNAP NAS and just store everything important in synchronized folders. If the laptop fails, anything truly important is already backed up. I'm insane so the QNAP is running RAID 6 with backup to backblaze

[Tim Mertens @rockfx01]

@tenderlove I have over 60 stashes and counting on the project I've been working on the past few years. "Next week, on Hoarders: a middle aged man struggles to toss work in progress that will never be completed"

[Tim Mertens @rockfx01]

@tenderlove @editingemily For tickling uninvited feet?

[Tim Mertens @rockfx01]

@JasonSwett So make a features directory and put the tests you want there. The structure is there as a guide, not a rule. But, unit tests should follow the structure of code or you lose discoverable of tests for specific classes

[Tim Mertens @rockfx01]

@altarr @TheSonOfWalkley @Reed_Wolfpack @RobinToal Maybe I do

[Tim Mertens @rockfx01]

@TheSonOfWalkley @Reed_Wolfpack @RobinToal All aspects? No. Most? Obviously. Can't say I don't miss *not* having a smartphone tethering me to work and the internet 24 hours a day just a little bit sometimes.

[Tim Mertens @rockfx01]

@TheSonOfWalkley @Reed_Wolfpack @RobinToal I was with you on this thread until this comment. My Motorola v60i was one of the best phones I ever owned and nigh indestructible.

[Tim Mertens @rockfx01]

@tenderlove Or putting cereal in the fridge