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We talk with Michael Nygard about simulation testing.
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Our Guest, Michael Nygard
Music
Mike chose "The Bomb" by Bittersweet to start the show and "Baba Yaga" by Mussorgsky to end the show.
Topics
- Simulation testing: "A randomized but repeatable way of applying traffic to a real system running more or less in its actual environment and expressing validations of global properties".
- Unit testing
- Behavior-driven development (BDD)
- Property-based testing
- QuickCheck
- test.generative
- Reid Draper Cognicast episode
- test.check
- Simulant library
- Load testing
- Causatum library
- Functional testing
- Markov model
- Bayesian state machine
- Datomic database
- Room Key
- Clojure case studies
- Datomic case studies
- Rich Hickey
Getting Started with Simulation Testing
- "Better than Unit Tests" - blog post by Mike Nygard
- Simulant library
- "Simulation testing with Simulant" - Stu Halloway from Clojure/West2013
- No Fluff Just Stuff conference series - Stu Halloway frequently presents on Simulation Testing
- Mike will be talking about simulation testing at Strange Loop 2014
- Want to chat more about Simulation Testing? Get in touch!
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We talk to Michael Nygard about simulation testing.