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How Helma Flew 5000 Miles to Sit in My Kitchen and Code

Helma from The Netherlands Came to Visit In the Programming By Stealth podcast I host with Bart Busschots as the instructor, we’ve covered a lot of different programming concepts. One concept we covered twice is Test Driven Development. We covered it twice because the tool that was available the first time we covered it (QUnit) […]

CCATP #717 – Bart Busschots on PBS 136 of X — More Jesting

March 5, 2022
by podfeet

Bart Busschots taught us the basics of Jest last time for our Test Driven Development environment. This week we learn to group our tests using the describe() function in Jest. Grouping tests with describe does more than eliminate the need to comment our code, it also provides more useful output from our tests and scopes […]

CCATP #715 – Bart Busschots on PBS 135 of X – Introducing Jest (and re-Introducing Test Driven Development & Unit Testing)

In this week’s installment of Programming By Stealth, Bart takes us down memory lane to 102 episodes ago when he first introduced us to the concept of test-driven development. He explains why back then he taught us how to use QUnit for our TDD work, and why it’s no longer in favor with him. It’s […]

CCATP #711 – Bart Busschots on PBS 133 of X – Firming up our Foundations (1 of 2)

In this installment of Programming By Stealth, Bart Busschots takes us through some review in order to prepare us to begin our journey into test driven development (TDD) with the tool Jest which he’s chosen for our TDD. He clears up some confusion on the difference between npm install and npm ci, and then he […]

Tesla Tech – Dashcam Leads to Installing a Python Script

Tesla Model 3 Right Side Repeater Camera One of my favorite things about the way I tell stories here is how hard I make it for you to figure out where I’m going and how I’m going to get there. This is one of those times. This article is part of my Tesla Tech series […]

CCATP #482 – Bart Busschots Programming By Stealth 33 of x – JS Testing with QUnit

In this installment of Programming By Stealth, Bart FINALLY lets us start learning Test Driven development, or TDD. He shows us how to use a free and open source tool called QUnit, made by the fine developers of jQuery, to analyze our test code. It’s something I’ve been itching to learn more about, ever since […]