i don't know what lint and smoketests or red teaming actually are, however, as vectors they seem to steer to better code, and i have no fear in running it for myself
there are different tiers of insane here, because if you're judiciously specifying tests that need to pass then it's fine to not look at but if you aren't, hoo buddy
April 24, 2026 at 5:13 AM
i don't know what lint and smoketests or red teaming actually are, however, as vectors they seem to steer to better code, and i have no fear in running it for myself
is that what all those smoketests they love to add are about?
May 4, 2026 at 10:38 PM
is that what all those smoketests they love to add are about?
-> eng pings another eng asking if we can use a system for smoketests
-> i leave for lunch, expecting to have details of said smoketest given to us by now
-> no one's said shit for like an hour now
-> i leave for lunch, expecting to have details of said smoketest given to us by now
-> no one's said shit for like an hour now
November 10, 2025 at 9:22 PM
-> eng pings another eng asking if we can use a system for smoketests
-> i leave for lunch, expecting to have details of said smoketest given to us by now
-> no one's said shit for like an hour now
-> i leave for lunch, expecting to have details of said smoketest given to us by now
-> no one's said shit for like an hour now
The PortaProgXL is back out on my desk as I develop the smoketest for a new board.
The PortaProgXL can program via SWD or UF2 upload. It can also run basic smoketests using USB serial.
It's battery powered and stores firmware files on SD.
No computer required 👍🏼
The PortaProgXL can program via SWD or UF2 upload. It can also run basic smoketests using USB serial.
It's battery powered and stores firmware files on SD.
No computer required 👍🏼
January 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The PortaProgXL is back out on my desk as I develop the smoketest for a new board.
The PortaProgXL can program via SWD or UF2 upload. It can also run basic smoketests using USB serial.
It's battery powered and stores firmware files on SD.
No computer required 👍🏼
The PortaProgXL can program via SWD or UF2 upload. It can also run basic smoketests using USB serial.
It's battery powered and stores firmware files on SD.
No computer required 👍🏼
phew. way too many social platforms today! will try to give this a spin properly tomorrow, see how it smoketests.
August 3, 2023 at 6:16 PM
phew. way too many social platforms today! will try to give this a spin properly tomorrow, see how it smoketests.
My #makeshitmonday submission is the "just now" PCB for my PortaProgXL. It's a portable programmer with initial support for SWD and USB UF2 uploads. It will also do simple smoketests.
I call it a "Bench Buddy" because it's LiPo powered and self contained so I use it on my bench without a computer.
I call it a "Bench Buddy" because it's LiPo powered and self contained so I use it on my bench without a computer.
November 18, 2024 at 9:12 PM
My #makeshitmonday submission is the "just now" PCB for my PortaProgXL. It's a portable programmer with initial support for SWD and USB UF2 uploads. It will also do simple smoketests.
I call it a "Bench Buddy" because it's LiPo powered and self contained so I use it on my bench without a computer.
I call it a "Bench Buddy" because it's LiPo powered and self contained so I use it on my bench without a computer.
So, you want to use good patterns we DO have, to recover "legacy" codebases and make them maintainable again.
("We" here is people who've had to do this before the hard way; lots of books on the subject)
Like:
- add end-to-end smoketests to cover the important flows
("We" here is people who've had to do this before the hard way; lots of books on the subject)
Like:
- add end-to-end smoketests to cover the important flows
May 5, 2026 at 6:25 PM
So, you want to use good patterns we DO have, to recover "legacy" codebases and make them maintainable again.
("We" here is people who've had to do this before the hard way; lots of books on the subject)
Like:
- add end-to-end smoketests to cover the important flows
("We" here is people who've had to do this before the hard way; lots of books on the subject)
Like:
- add end-to-end smoketests to cover the important flows
but unlike my domain, where there is a deterministic test for whether an agent can one-shot something, and even a way to give it guardrails to make sure that it doesn't even try to submit something that fails smoketests so it can try again, that doesn't work in the law!
August 21, 2026 at 4:56 AM
but unlike my domain, where there is a deterministic test for whether an agent can one-shot something, and even a way to give it guardrails to make sure that it doesn't even try to submit something that fails smoketests so it can try again, that doesn't work in the law!
Ever get confused about what exactly is meant when people talk about #UnitTests, #IntegrationTests, #RegressionTests, and #SmokeTests? I wrote a little something about them to, hopefully, explain the differences and overlap: www.cassandrahl.com/blog/on-unit...
#Quality #Testing #SoftwareTesting
#Quality #Testing #SoftwareTesting
On Unit / Integration / Regression Tests and Terminology - Cassandra HL
This post is inspired by several conversations I’ve had over the years, as well as my own musings about testing targets, testing intentions, and terminology. I’ve noticed that there’s often confusion...
www.cassandrahl.com
October 13, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Ever get confused about what exactly is meant when people talk about #UnitTests, #IntegrationTests, #RegressionTests, and #SmokeTests? I wrote a little something about them to, hopefully, explain the differences and overlap: www.cassandrahl.com/blog/on-unit...
#Quality #Testing #SoftwareTesting
#Quality #Testing #SoftwareTesting
Added a smoke test to a demo app today, and it immediately caught a bug that I'd introduced an hour ago in a deployment-only path of the code.
Phew! 😅
Workflow file:
https://github.com/Azure-Samples/openai-chat-vision-quickstart/blob/main/.github/workflows/azure-dev.yaml#L86
Phew! 😅
Workflow file:
https://github.com/Azure-Samples/openai-chat-vision-quickstart/blob/main/.github/workflows/azure-dev.yaml#L86
October 2, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Added a smoke test to a demo app today, and it immediately caught a bug that I'd introduced an hour ago in a deployment-only path of the code.
Phew! 😅
Workflow file:
https://github.com/Azure-Samples/openai-chat-vision-quickstart/blob/main/.github/workflows/azure-dev.yaml#L86
Phew! 😅
Workflow file:
https://github.com/Azure-Samples/openai-chat-vision-quickstart/blob/main/.github/workflows/azure-dev.yaml#L86
Stats!
100 features smoked per build
**95% reduction in QA time spent doing smoketests**
30,000 perf data points gathered a week
And they've got better at writing stable tests, taking 1.6 iterations to get stable, down from 2.4!
100 features smoked per build
**95% reduction in QA time spent doing smoketests**
30,000 perf data points gathered a week
And they've got better at writing stable tests, taking 1.6 iterations to get stable, down from 2.4!
May 21, 2026 at 5:34 PM
Stats!
100 features smoked per build
**95% reduction in QA time spent doing smoketests**
30,000 perf data points gathered a week
And they've got better at writing stable tests, taking 1.6 iterations to get stable, down from 2.4!
100 features smoked per build
**95% reduction in QA time spent doing smoketests**
30,000 perf data points gathered a week
And they've got better at writing stable tests, taking 1.6 iterations to get stable, down from 2.4!
Merged PR #2469: test(integration): Fix dex smoketests
https://github.com/penumbra-zone/penumbra/pull/2469
https://github.com/penumbra-zone/penumbra/pull/2469
May 4, 2023 at 4:48 PM
Merged PR #2469: test(integration): Fix dex smoketests
https://github.com/penumbra-zone/penumbra/pull/2469
https://github.com/penumbra-zone/penumbra/pull/2469
Post-Release Validation: Automated Smoke Tests and Canary Monitoring
https://beefed.ai/en/post-release-validation-smoke-canary
#PostreleaseValidation #CanaryDeployments #SmokeTests #SyntheticMonitoring #DeploymentVerification
https://beefed.ai/en/post-release-validation-smoke-canary
#PostreleaseValidation #CanaryDeployments #SmokeTests #SyntheticMonitoring #DeploymentVerification
Post-Release Validation: Automated Smoke Tests and Canary Monitoring
beefed.ai
May 17, 2026 at 9:12 PM
Post-Release Validation: Automated Smoke Tests and Canary Monitoring
https://beefed.ai/en/post-release-validation-smoke-canary
#PostreleaseValidation #CanaryDeployments #SmokeTests #SyntheticMonitoring #DeploymentVerification
https://beefed.ai/en/post-release-validation-smoke-canary
#PostreleaseValidation #CanaryDeployments #SmokeTests #SyntheticMonitoring #DeploymentVerification
Think you learn coding 7 days a week after 30 years experience. You write a LOT of #smoketests. More tests, than production code. Guess who has ZERO CLUE what I am talking about. A vibe coder...
May 1, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Think you learn coding 7 days a week after 30 years experience. You write a LOT of #smoketests. More tests, than production code. Guess who has ZERO CLUE what I am talking about. A vibe coder...
+1000. Full staging environments are for smoketests and for disaster drills, not for feature development. Test and debug by canarying in prod. https://twitter.com/copyconstruct/status/1106315739709865985
January 13, 2025 at 5:47 PM
+1000. Full staging environments are for smoketests and for disaster drills, not for feature development. Test and debug by canarying in prod. https://twitter.com/copyconstruct/status/1106315739709865985
Now our config is safety-critical. What do? Smoketests, big red buttons, and slow rollout of changes to our constraint configs. #SREcon
January 13, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Now our config is safety-critical. What do? Smoketests, big red buttons, and slow rollout of changes to our constraint configs. #SREcon
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aws-sdk-ec2 (1.77.0): Documentation updates for Amazon EC2.
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