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.
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Show Notes
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