Writing on Testing
Articles on Testing from Tauseef Fayyaz: practical writing on engineering, AI and tech careers, drawn from leading a team and mentoring engineers.
By Tauseef Fayyaz60 posts90K+ readers
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- career growth
The Defaults I Would Learn First as a Software Engineer
Fourteen software engineering best practices written as defaults: prototype vague requirements, choose boring tools, wait for the third duplicate, write the failing test first, measure before optimising, ask after an hour.Jul 29, 202622 - testing
Five Kinds of API Test and When Each One Earns Its Place
The five types of API testing that do most of the work: functional, integration, regression, load and security. What each catches, what each misses, how to spread your effort, and the one-minute check OWASP ranks as the top API risk.Jul 7, 202620 - code review
Six Rules That Keep a Codebase Worth Working In
Six clean code principles, separation of concerns, DRY, KISS, YAGNI, test-driven design and writing for the next reader, each with what it protects against, where it came from and how it goes wrong.Jul 2, 202656 - devops
What Actually Happens Between Your Pull Request and Production
A CI/CD pipeline explained as a system, not a set of buttons: the five stages from pull request to production, what each protects you from, rolling vs blue-green vs canary, and how to read a failed stage in ten seconds.Jun 25, 202657
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