June 05, 2017
Taking Shutl on the road!
Everything started in Seattle last year. We were about to start working on eBay stack with our sister team located there. We came to Seattle to meet up with them…
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May 05, 2017
Feature teams 101
When I joined the company there was only an engineering team. As we started to grow we ended up splitting into three teams. There was the mandatory platform team that…
April 27, 2017
How to keep track of workload in an Agile manner
When you work on an Agile tech company like Shutl there are many things happening at the same time every week. Developers are constantly shipping new features and maintaining the…
March 24, 2017
Make your integration tests faster using HSQL
Test Driven Development with Unit tests and Integration Tests The golden rule of Test Driven Development is never write new functionality without a failing test. Yes. You need to start…
March 01, 2017
TDD for your technical interview
That technical challenge is coming, and when it does, do you want TDD by your side? A true story A year ago I had no experience with tests. During an interview,…
February 23, 2017
Distributed orchestration and consensus discovery with a low bandwidth asynchronous signalling protocol
Jazz hands for great meetings When grownups have meetings, they tend to have grownup meetings. When developers have meetings, they tend to just talk at each other for a while…
February 09, 2017
Hacking your way into security training
As an eBay company, you would think that we feel nervous every time we hear from our InfoSec representatives. What is it now? A new scan, a pen test, an…
January 30, 2017
Noteworthy features of Spock — The finale
In this article we will continue exploring more interesting features that Spock has to offer: Let’s start with the old method: Consider a class that implements a buffer:
January 23, 2017
Using test doubles in Spock – Part II
In our previous article, we covered some of the main features that Spock offers. In this article we will continue exploring the mocking capabilities of the framework. If we continue…
January 17, 2017
Enterprise testing with Spock – Part I
At Shutl, as an eBay company, I have had the opportunity to collaborate with different teams that are developing Java backend services, usually using JUnit and Mockito for their tests….