Optimizing Your Test Suite && How to tame a 🦄

+++ Details +++

Our next @WebEngAc will be on 27th January 2021 with two awesome talks!

This will be fourth online event and will be done via Zoom: (https://zoom.us/)

Location: Your home / Online

Get Drinks & Snacks from your stash.

Entry is free!

If you would like to sponsor this event, please contact us.

+++ Talks +++

• Optimizing Your Test Suite by Sebastian Bergmann
  (https://twitter.com/s_bergmann)

• How to tame a 🦄 by Andreas Heigl (https://twitter.com/heiglandreas)

+++ Agenda +++

18:30 - 19:00: Arrival, get a drink from your fridge
19:00 - 19:10: Welcome
19:10 - ~19:45: Talk + Q&A
19:55 - ~20:30: Talk + Q&A
20:30 - Open End: Socialising

+++ Optimizing Your Test Suite +++

Your tests can always be better: they could be faster to execute, they could provide better feedback when they fail, they could be easier to maintain. In this presentation you will learn how to optimize your (PHPUnit) test suite in the dimensions of efficacy and efficiency as well as readability and organizational structure.

+++ How to tame a 🦄 +++

You've got strange characters like "�" or "ö" display in your application? Yes, handling non-English characters in application code, files and databases can be a challenge, to say the least. Whether that's German Umlauts, Cyrillic letters, Asian Glyphs or Emojis: It's always a mess in an international application. In this session you will see why that is and how handling characters evolved in computing. You will also see how handling characters in applications and databases can be done less painfully. And don't worry when EBCDIC, BOM or ISO-8859-7 are Greek to you and your Unicode is a bit rusty: we'll have a look at them too!