Testing at Airbnb
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Testing at Airbnb
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#2I like that the URL for this starts with nerds.airbnb.com...
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#3Wow. I'm surprised at how big they were able to scale, while still pushing most commits directly to master and having a test suite that took 1hr to run.
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#5I absolutely love this writeup! Thank you!
As someone running a company with around 50 people, and a quickly growing codebase, introducing testing as "a bar so low you can trip over it" is an amazing way to articulate exactly how i feel about this.
For us at first we did this by introducing tests on our most complex and commonly used code, that could be run locally. Moving onto using pull requests and having a more robust CI setup to enable more regular deploys is currently the task at hand.
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#6Great article!
You really don't got a test culture unless you're 'allowed' to take time to debug errors that happens inside the test suite and not the product itself. This is the difference between writing tests and really having a TDD-culture.
I mean those issues where the test suites requires maintenance but the actual code base or product is "working".
Everyone has had them. I guess it that's what the article means by 'great pain'.
Recently I've heard a few non-engineers use "continuos integration" as a way of charging clients more as use per buzz word rules.
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#7Pretty interesting that according to him, Airbnb didn't really have a functioning testing infrastructure only a year ago. So you really can hit a billion dollars in valuation without testing :)
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#8I like that the URL for this starts with nerds.airbnb.com...
Collectively, we call our engineers "nerds." That's the URL for the engineering blog.
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#9I absolutely love this writeup! Thank you! As someone running a company with around 50 people, and a quickly growing codebase, introducing testing as "a bar so low you can trip over it" is an amazing way to articulate exactly how i feel about this. For us at first we did this by introducing tests on our most complex and commonly used code, that could be run locally. Moving onto using pull requests and having a more r…
Like testing, PRs are one of those things that seems like it will slow you down, but once you learn how to use them they can actually increase velocity (among many other benefits). It's been awesome to watch how good people have gotten at collaborating/communicating via PRs at Airbnb.
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#10Great article!
I wonder if the guys are doing code reviews for each PR along with making sure build is green. In our team, we've been doing code reviews for about three years now and can't imagine our workflow without them.