30: Mutation Testing using Muzak with Devon Estes

We talk with Devon Estes, the creator of a new Elixir mutation testing library called Muzak. Devon joins us to explain what mutation testing is and how it can help development teams in organizations move faster and with greater confidence. We cover when a project can benefit from it, the challenges of offering a PRO version of a library, where Muzak is going in the future, and more!
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/30 (http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/30)
Elixir Community News
- https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.11.3 (https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.11.3) – Elixir 1.11.3 was released with mostly bug fixes
- https://www.lambdadays.org/lambdadays2021 (https://www.lambdadays.org/lambdadays2021) – Lambda Days 2021. An Online Conference 16-19 February 2021
- https://twitter.com/lambdadays/status/1346021063671619584 (https://twitter.com/lambdadays/status/1346021063671619584) – Jose Valim plans to announce something he's excited about at the conference
- https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_html/issues/329 (https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_html/issues/329) – Phoenix HTML is adding validated HTML
- https://utils.zest.dev/gendiff (https://utils.zest.dev/gendiff) – David's Elixir generator diffing service
Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir (https://twitter.com/ThinkingElixir) or email at [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])
Discussion Resources
- https://devonestes.com/announcing_muzak (https://devonestes.com/announcing_muzak)
- https://hexdocs.pm/muzak/muzak.html (https://hexdocs.pm/muzak/muzak.html)
- https://hexdocs.pm/assertions/Assertions.html (https://hexdocs.pm/assertions/Assertions.html) – Another library Devon created in the area of testing
- https://github.com/bencheeorg/benchee (https://github.com/bencheeorg/benchee)
- https://github.com/PragTob (https://github.com/PragTob)
- https://github.com/danmayer/coverband (https://github.com/danmayer/coverband)
- https://github.com/unused-code/unused (https://github.com/unused-code/unused)
- https://github.com/sponsors (https://github.com/sponsors)
Guest Information
- https://twitter.com/devoncestes (https://twitter.com/devoncestes) – on Twitter
- https://github.com/devonestes (https://github.com/devonestes) – on Github
- https://devonestes.com/ (https://devonestes.com/) – Blog
Find us online
- Message the show - @ThinkingElixir (https://twitter.com/ThinkingElixir)
- Email the show - [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])
- Mark Ericksen - @brainlid (https://twitter.com/brainlid)
- David Bernheisel - @bernheisel (https://twitter.com/bernheisel)
- Cade Ward - @cadebward (https://twitter.com/cadebward)

We talk with Devon Estes, the creator of a new Elixir mutation testing library called Muzak. Devon joins us to explain what mutation testing is and how it can help development teams in organizations move faster and with greater confidence. We cover when a project can benefit from it, the challenges of offering a PRO version of a library, where Muzak is going in the future, and more!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/30

Elixir Community News

https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.11.3 – Elixir 1.11.3 was released with mostly bug fixes
https://www.lambdadays.org/lambdadays2021 – Lambda Days 2021. An Online Conference 16-19 February 2021
https://twitter.com/lambdadays/status/1346021063671619584 – Jose Valim plans to announce something he's excited about at the conference
https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_html/issues/329 – Phoenix HTML is adding validated HTML
https://utils.zest.dev/gendiff – David's Elixir generator diffing service

Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at [email protected]

Discussion Resources

https://devonestes.com/announcing_muzak
https://hexdocs.pm/muzak/muzak.html
https://hexdocs.pm/assertions/Assertions.html – Another library Devon created in the area of testing
https://github.com/bencheeorg/benchee
https://github.com/PragTob
https://github.com/danmayer/coverband
https://github.com/unused-code/unused
https://github.com/sponsors

Guest Information

https://twitter.com/devoncestes – on Twitter
https://github.com/devonestes – on Github
https://devonestes.com/ – Blog

Find us online

Message the show - @ThinkingElixir
Email the show - [email protected]
Mark Ericksen - @brainlid
David Bernheisel - @bernheisel
Cade Ward - @cadebward