Elixir Mix is a weekly show focused on the Elixir programming community. Our panel discusses topics around functional programming, the Elixir ecosystem, and building real world apps with Elixir based tools and frameworks.

Episode 61: EMx 061: Mutation Testing in Elixir with Daniel Serrano

July 23, 2019 54:44 56.2 MB Downloads: 0

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Panel

  • Mark Ericksen

  • Eric Oestrich

Joined by Special Guest: Daniel Serrano

Summary

Daniel Serrano explains what mutation testing is and how it works. The panel discusses the purpose and benefits of mutation testing. Daniel shares how mutation testing can fit into your process. The panel considers Daniel’s exunit deep dive and how this helped building exavier, his library. Daniel shares how he came up with the name exavier. 

 

The panel asks Daniel about his experience load testing broadway. Daniel explains what broadway is and the benefits seen load testing it. Daniel shares how he got into distributed tracing and how it differs from tracing. Daniel tells the panel about his experience learning elixir and joining the community. 

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