CR 398: Testing the Test¶

About this episode¶

The guys can't help but laugh when they hear the test tests one well-known online giant is testing. You might say they get a bit testy.

Alacritty: A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator. — Alacritty is a modern terminal emulator that comes with sensible defaults, but allows for extensive configuration. By integrating with other applications, rather than reimplementing their functionality, it manages to provide a flexible set of features with high performance. The supported platforms currently consist of BSD, Linux, macOS and Windows.
How We Ported Linux to the M1 — At Corellium, we've been tracking the Apple mobile ecosystem since iPhone 6, released in 2014 with two 64-bit cores.
Apple Seeds Second Release Candidate Version of macOS Big Sur 11.2 to Developers — ‌macOS Big Sur‌ 11 included a ContentFilterExclusionList that let Apple's apps like the App Store, Maps, iCloud, and more to avoid firewall and VPN apps that users had installed
Probabilistic flakiness: How do you test your tests? — While we use automated tests to detect regressions in product quality, until recently we had no means of automatically detecting whether the tests themselves were deteriorating.