VlbgWebDev: Mutation Testing & Decentralised Exchange

Mutation testing in PHP: Testing your tests with the Infection framework by Dominic Luidold

Being able to rely on a test suite during software development helps to find bugs, prevent regressions and improve code quality. The often-quoted “80% target” is an ambitious one, but how do we test the quality of our tests while reaching it along the way? In this talk, we look at one possible answer: mutation testing and how to “kill the mutants”.

Implementing a DEX on the Cardano Blockchain - a technical retrospective by Jonathan Thaler

Jonathan was part of the team that implemented the Axo decentralized exchange on the Cardano Blockchain, where he did major architectural work, led the backend team and was responsible for the systems implementation in Haskell. In this talk he gives a technical retrospective, briefly introducing basics of Cardano, outlining and discussing the system architecture with the technical challenges the team had to solve and wrapping up with a critique of the ecosystem and the tech stack used.