Episode 60: EMx 060: Property-Based Testing, Dialyzer, & Inaka with Brujo Benavides

Elixir Mix

English - July 16, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 65.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
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Previous Episode: EMx 059: Using Rust to Scale Elixir for 11 Million Concurrent Users with Matt Nowack

Next Episode: EMx 061: Mutation Testing in Elixir with Daniel Serrano

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Panel

Mark Ericksen

Eric Oestrich

Michael Ries

Joined by Special Guest: Brujo Benavides

Summary

Brujo Benavides shares what he is working on right now and how his team feels about working in both Elixir and Erlang. He shares what his team has gotten out of using Elixir and what he thinks his team will get out of Elixir in the future. The panel discusses property-based testing and Fred Hebert’s book on property-based testing. Brujo shares use cases that would benefit from property-based testing and those that would benefit from unit testing. The panel considers dialyzer and shares their experiences using it in their code. Brujo explains how he chooses which tools to use for a project. Inaka is discussed; Brujo explains what they are all about and how to join. Upcoming conferences that Inaka is organizing is outlined and details on how to buy tickets are given.

Links

EMx 031: Lessons from a Decade of Erlang with Brujo Benavides

https://elixir-lang.org/docs.html

EMx 047: Property Based Testing with PropEr and Fred Hebert

My Take on Property-Based Testing for Erlang & Elixir

https://github.com/proper-testing/proper

Help Dialyzer Help You!

http://erlang.org/doc/man/dialyzer.html

http://erlang.org/doc/man/dialyzer.html#gui-0

http://erlang.org/doc/apps/dialyzer/dialyzer_chapter.html#dialyzer_gui

Erlang Oddities - Brujo Benavides

https://github.com/inaka/elvis