Are Your Tests Slowing You Down? By Trisha Gee

Testing is a Good Thing, right? Especially automated testing. But "Good things come to those who wait" is not something that's going to appeal to the busy developer. You want results, and you want them now. You're in The Zone working on a problem, and the last thing you want is to break your flow wrestling with your testing framework or waiting for the tests to finish running.
More code means more tests. More coverage means more tests. More tests mean more time. Time that you want to spend being productive, creative, innovative. How can you balance the need for quality with the need for speed?
In this talk, Trisha will identify issues that slow down developers when writing, running and debugging tests, and look at tools that can help developers with each of these problems. There will be live coding, analysis of social media poll results, an overview of solutions in this space, "best practice" recommendations, and machine learning will be mentioned at some point.
TRISHA GEE
Trisha is a software engineer, Java Champion and author. Trisha has developed Java applications for a range of industries of all sizes, including finance, manufacturing and non-profit, and she's a lead developer advocate at Gradle. She has expertise in Java high-performance systems and dabbles with Open Source development.
Trisha’s exceptionally passionate about sharing things that help real developers. That might be: getting them up to speed on the latest version of Java; teaching them tips and tricks to improve their productivity; or promoting healthy technical communities across the globe. Trisha values helping all developers level up their career and skills at every step of their journey.
Read more from Trisha in the books “Head First Java”, “Getting to Know IntelliJ IDEA”, “97 Things Every Java Developer Should Know” and “What to Look for in a Code Review”.

[@JudgeFredd]

Great event this year

[@luisdanielmesa]

Terrible advice... meaningless, rather.

[@GodofStories]

idk i found some of it useful, especially using intellij for writing tests quicker. One can argue writing tests itself is meaningless. Now especially using AI assistants to have complete coverage for tests is hugely beneficial

[@luisdanielmesa]

@@GodofStories I'm used to writing tests, I have my own simplistic style. I don't like writing more than I absolutely need to and I don't need AI to have 100% coverage. I'm not paying 500€ for a piece of software when I can do the same with NetBeans.

[@renegadosPL]

Did you see the same talk?