Due to maintaining Catch2 and generally caring about SW correctness, I spend _a lot_ of my time thinking about tests. This has left me with many opinions about tests, some conventional and some heterodox. … »
Last week I was at NDC TechTown 2022, and I decided to write down my thoughts on the talks I saw (including the two talks given at the meetup before the conference) and other related things. … »
There is a lot of confusion about floating-point numbers and a lot of bad advice going around. IEEE-754 floating-point numbers are a complex beast, and comparing them is not always easy, but in this post, we will take a look at different approaches and their tradeoffs. … »
In this post, we will take a look at testing with Catch2. First, we will go over the basics, and then we will take a closer look at three more advanced features: Matchers, Generators, and Benchmarking. … »
Premature optimization is often said to be the root of all evil, because it makes future maintenance harder. I want to show some cases where the faster code is just (or more) as maintainable as the slower one. … »