16:00 - 17:00 @ Begijnenzolder
Speaker: Felix De Rycker
When it comes to tests, it is not uncommon to hear from both extremes of the spectrum: those that see it as an afterthought and those that adhere to testing dogmatically. In this talk, Felix advocates for the middle ground.
All too often the tight coupling and spaghetti code that developers try to avoid in production code emerges in their testing code.
With examples of pitfalls observed in the projects he has worked on, Felix will aim to demonstrate that different test types -- such as unit tests, integration tests, and end-to-end tests -- have different strengths and weaknesses depending on their context, and that this context is determined by the implementations and scenarios they assess.
Thus Felix will argue it is in a developer's best interest to view test types as but tools, and to consider carefully when and where to use them.
About the speaker:
Felix is a full-stack software developer with five years of industry experience in web applications consisting of dotnet backends and either React or Angular frontends. He has a keen interest in technical deep dives, architecture, and testing methodologies.
