Posts tagged "testing"

While building Minimal Analytics I had the need to test a function that was dependent on time.

In my case, the function returned the milliseconds until midnight.

Here is a simple way to test the function msUntilMidnight.

This is a short summary of my experience while writing a simple HackerNews scraper.

As a pure exercise or kata if you want, I tried to apply Clean code, Refactoring and Testing priciples for this small npm module.

The task is simple:

Get the posts on the front page of https://news.ycombinator.com and parse them.

Today a dear user made me aware that my RSS feed broke. There was a XML Parsing Error for cri.dev/rss.xml.

ASAP after work I checked the validity through validator.w3.org/feed/ and in fact there were some issues with it.

Angular`s digest loop is like a baby: you need to take care of it and feed it well, or it will puke all over your nice shirt. Actually, it will probably, eventually do it anyway.