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Luís Soares

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Level Up Coding

The Waterfall Assessment Test

Are you following a waterfall approach? You may believe nobody does waterfall these days. However, it is often applied at a smaller scale…

Mar 10

The Waterfall Assessment Test

Mar 10

Published in
Level Up Coding

Principles for Writing Functions

Here are the most important things I consider when writing functions.

Feb 21

Principles for Writing Functions

Feb 21

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CodeX

Stop using CSS and Test Ids to locate elements in tests

How should we locate elements when testing web pages?

Nov 22, 2024

Stop using CSS and Test Ids to locate elements in tests

Nov 22, 2024

Antipattern #3 — Long parameter list

A source of many ambiguities and mistakes.

Nov 5, 2024

Antipattern #3 — Long parameter list

Nov 5, 2024

Antipattern #2 — Sharing state between tests

A shared state between tests means pain while understanding and debugging them.

Oct 21, 2024

Antipattern #2 — Sharing state between tests

Oct 21, 2024

Antipattern #1 — Bigger scope than needed

Why defining variables upfront is a bad idea

Oct 16, 2024

Antipattern #1 — Bigger scope than needed

Oct 16, 2024

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Level Up Coding

Speaking a Ubiquitous Language

Can you quickly grasp a codebase's goals? Do technical details distract you when changing a business rule? Do you understand the value of…

Jun 18, 2024

Speaking a Ubiquitous Language

Jun 18, 2024

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Dev Genius

Automated testing in C — Part II

Acceptance testing means testing software in a user-centric way (roughly the same as end-to-end testing). I’ll present a way to test a CLI…

May 21, 2024

Automated testing in C — Part II

May 21, 2024

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Dev Genius

Automated testing in C — Part I

I’m a fan of automated testing but usually do it in higher-level languages like Kotlin, Ruby, or Python. I’ll prove that we can do it in C…

May 17, 2024

Automated testing in C — Part I

May 17, 2024

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CodeX

Coding backward

Let’s learn about one of my favorite techniques in coding. It offers focus, direction, and waste reduction.

Apr 3, 2024

Coding backward

Apr 3, 2024

Luís Soares

Luís Soares

I write about automated testing, Lean, TDD, CI/CD, trunk-based dev., user-centric dev, domain-centric arch, ...

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