Testing at Airbnb

Pretty interesting that according to him, Airbnb didn't really have a functioning testing infrastructure only a year ago. So you really can hit a billion dollars in valuation without testing :)

Great article!<p>You really don&#x27;t got a test culture unless you&#x27;re &#x27;allowed&#x27; to take time to debug errors that happens inside the test suite and not the product itself. This is the difference between writing tests and really having a TDD-culture.<p>I mean those issues where the test suites requires maintenance but the actual code base or product is &quot;working&quot;.<p>Everyone has had them. I guess it that&#x27;s what the article means by &#x27;great pain&#x27;.<p>Recently I&#x27;ve heard a few non-engineers use &quot;continuos integration&quot; as a way of charging clients more as use per buzz word rules.

Interesting that you guys went with Solano. We used them back when they were TDDium and found the experience to be very bad. There was notable downtime, a poor interface, and a crappy configuration experience (getting environmental variables into it was very annoying). We&#x27;ve been happily with Codeship ever since.<p>What reasons did you have for choosing Solano? How has your experience been?

I absolutely love this writeup! Thank you!<p>As someone running a company with around 50 people, and a quickly growing codebase, introducing testing as &quot;a bar so low you can trip over it&quot; is an amazing way to articulate exactly how i feel about this.<p>For us at first we did this by introducing tests on our most complex and commonly used code, that could be run locally. Moving onto using pull requests and having a more robust CI setup to enable more regular deploys is currently the task at hand.

Does anybody have recommendations for where&#x2F;how to start learning best practices for TDD?<p>As (nominally) top nerd at a tiny startup (2 engineers), I feel like I should set a precedent sooner rather than later for testing. This is currently not possible since I don&#x27;t know anything about it, so any resources would be appreciated :)<p>Edit: Primarily looking for resources involving Node.js and client-side testing of a jQuery-based website.

Great article!<p>I wonder if the guys are doing code reviews for each PR along with making sure build is green. In our team, we&#x27;ve been doing code reviews for about three years now and can&#x27;t imagine our workflow without them.

Ironically, AngelList posted a slideshow the other day about how they don&#x27;t use tests because they increase development time and make it hard to be agile. They instead iterate quickly, pushing out new versions and fixing rapidly as things come up.

Wow. I&#x27;m surprised at how big they were able to scale, while still pushing most commits directly to master and having a test suite that took 1hr to run.

Unfortunately, I can&#x27;t read this article on my phone because the layout is so screwed up (Samsung Galaxy SII).

Is pushing directly to master still not disabled to this day?

I like that the URL for this starts with nerds.airbnb.com...