Testing Challenges at Scale
Hyrum highlights the incentive mismatch in teams responsible for creating expensive systems and their testing counterparts, leading to poorly constructed test doubles. Gregory introduces Algorand as a user-friendly decentralized operating system that leverages familiar programming languages. The discussion delves into the complexities of testing at scale, emphasizing the need for effective test selection and pruning to manage the vast number of tests run against changes in core libraries.In this clip
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SE Radio 609: Hyrum Wright on Software Engineering at Google
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