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logaan11:08:30

so the talk tonight wasn’t exactly what I was expecting

nicholasf11:08:47

glad that there is a channel going now

logaan11:08:51

I thought that he’d built a took like of like the w3c linkchecker

logaan11:08:09

that would interact with your site, clicking links, filling out forms and submitting them

logaan11:08:20

and that you’d write invariats for your site

logaan11:08:42

like… “people shouldn’t be able to see each other’s private data” or “people shouldn’t be able to make themselves admins"

nicholasf11:08:03

what was it actually about?

logaan11:08:05

and the tool would be like “well if you change this hidden field called ‘role’ and put in ‘admin’ then that last one breaks"

logaan11:08:34

a tool kind of like that, but you have to write a bunch of code that tells the test suite how to interact with your app

logaan11:08:44

and write functions that build and modify a model of the state of your app

logaan11:08:57

and then the real state of the app is compared to the expected state of the app

logaan11:08:00

which is kind of a cool idea

logaan11:08:29

i’ll see if I can find the link

nicholasf11:08:18

are they doing clojure at Zendesk?

logaan11:08:03

yeah. for some stuff it seems.

logaan11:08:11

their core app sounds like it’s still rails.

nicholasf11:08:17

hrm .. I was going to interview with them for a Senior Data Scientist role or something

nicholasf11:08:22

damn, I didnt know they were doing Clojure

nicholasf11:08:24

I took another role