EMx 061: Mutation Testing in Elixir with Daniel Serrano

Elixir Mix

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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-Mix
• https://twitter.com/elixir_mix

Picks Mark Ericksen:

• https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
• https://send.firefox.com

Eric Oestrich:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eye_of_the_World

Daniel Serrano:

• Dark
• https://github.com/itchyny/lightline.vim
• https://github.com/plataformatec/flow

Special Guest: Daniel Serrano.
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