GraphQL and Property-based Testing

NEW LOCATION: Sorry about the venue hopping but we're moving again, due to scheduling issues with BOI Workbench. We will be at REPUBLIC OF WORK which is located on 12 South Mall, Cork City. Hopefully this will be our new home going forward.

This months talks are:

GraphQL

by Peter Kelly (@pkellyonline (https://twitter.com/pkellyonline))

GraphQL is a different way to think about APIs. After spending the best part of a decade building RESTful(ish) APIs, I recently started working with GraphQL.

This is a more query-like approach to building an API based on GraphQL protocol and types. It's another tool to have in the toolbox when thinking about building a web service. Minimum slides, mostly live coding.

Property-based Testing

By Julien Cretel (@jubobs (https://twitter.com/jubobs))

Property-based testing consists in describing your expectations of the system under test as a set of general, parameterised tests (or "properties") and letting the testing library generate—and simplify, in the event of failures—random test cases for you.

In this mostly language-agnostic talk, I intend to present the principles and practices, through a series of examples, of property-based testing. It may be enough to convince you to add property-based testing to your bag of tricks.

Thank you to this month's meetup sponsor NGINX (https://www.nginx.com/).

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