Michael Nygard - Cognicast Episode 059

We talk with Michael Nygard about simulation testing.

As you may have noticed, the Cognicast has finally made its way to its new home here at cognitect.com!

Our Guest, Michael Nygard

• on Twitter
• on Github
• on the Web
• on LinkedIn

Music

Mike chose "The Bomb" by Bittersweet to start the show and "Baba Yaga" by Mussorgsky to end the show.

Topics

• Simulation testing: "A randomized but repeatable way of applying traffic to a real system running more or less in its actual environment and expressing validations of global properties".
• Unit testing
• Behavior-driven development (BDD)
• Property-based testing
• QuickCheck
• test.generative
• Reid Draper Cognicast episode
• test.check
• Simulant library
• Load testing
• Causatum library
• Functional testing
• Markov model
• Bayesian state machine
• Datomic database
• Room Key
• Clojure case studies
• Datomic case studies
• Rich Hickey

Getting Started with Simulation Testing

• "Better than Unit Tests" - blog post by Mike Nygard
• Simulant library
• "Simulation testing with Simulant" - Stu Halloway from Clojure/West2013
• No Fluff Just Stuff conference series - Stu Halloway frequently presents on Simulation Testing
• Mike will be talking about simulation testing at Strange Loop 2014
• Want to chat more about Simulation Testing? Get in touch!

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Credits

Episode Cover Art:

• Michael Parenteau

Audio Production

• Russ Olsen

Production Assistance

• Lynn Grogan
• Jamie Kite

We talk to Michael Nygard about simulation testing.