EMx 061: Mutation Testing in Elixir with Daniel Serrano

Sponsors Sentry– use the code “devchat” for two months free on Sentry’s small plan CacheFly Panel Mark Ericksen Eric Oestrich Joined by Special Guest: Daniel Serrano Summary Daniel Serrano explains what mutation testing is and how it works. The panel discusses the purpose and benefits of mutation testing. Daniel shares how mutation testing can fit into your process. The panel considers Daniel’s exunit deep dive and how this helped building exavier, his library. Daniel shares how he came up with the name exavier.    The panel asks Daniel about his experience load testing broadway. Daniel explains what broadway is and the benefits seen load testing it. Daniel shares how he got into distributed tracing and how it differs from tracing. Daniel tells the panel about his experience learning elixir and joining the community.  Links https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutation_testing  https://github.com/mbj/mutant  http://pitest.org/  https://github.com/dnlserrano/exavier  https://github.com/dnlserrano  https://dnlserrano.dev/2019/05/26/exunit-deep-dive.html  https://jmeter.apache.org/  https://twitter.com/brainlid  José Valim - Keynote: Announcing Brodway - ElixirConf EU 2019  https://github.com/plataformatec/broadway  https://aws.amazon.com/sqs/  https://opentracing.io/docs/overview/what-is-tracing/  https://github.com/spandex-project/spandex/  https://www.datadoghq.com/  https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/  Daniel Serrano - From Noob to Contributing Noob - ElixirConf EU 2019  https://twitter.com/dnlserrano  https://dnlserrano.dev/https://www.facebook.com/Elixir-Mixhttps://twitter.com/elixir_mix Picks Mark Ericksen: