testing – Page 6 – Türker Yıldırım

6.8, and the passwords that were rehashed

Deep diveApril 23, 202510 min read

WordPress changes its password hashing in April, and a migration that completes only as fast as users come back.

A pipeline that deploys on merge, and the four gates before it

Deep diveApril 18, 202510 min read

Eight deploys a week performed by a person, an hour after merge, by whoever was free. Continuous deployment needs confidence rather than automation.

188 tests deleted with the code they covered

NoteApril 9, 20252 min read

A directory of tests excluded from every tool since 2023, examined and removed along with what they tested. Three independent checks — coverage to find what the tests…

PHPUnit 12, and a two-hour upgrade

NoteApril 9, 20252 min read

A third consecutive annual major, each cheaper than the last, which is what doing the first one properly buys. The cost of an annual major is almost entirely…

Laravel 12, and a starter kit we did not use

Deep diveMarch 19, 20258 min read

A major release in February that is deliberately almost nothing, and an upgrade guide that fits on a page.

PHPUnit 12, and the tests we deleted instead

Deep diveMarch 13, 20259 min read

A two-hour upgrade, and a directory of 188 tests excluded from every tool since 2023 and running on every push.

A specification object whose two paths disagreed

NoteMarch 11, 20252 min read

A specification with an in-memory check and a query builder, both correct in isolation and disagreeing on a boundary. One character apart, and the report listed orders the…

An API versioned for the first time in six years

Deep diveMarch 6, 202514 min read

Six years of additive-only changes, and a change that cannot be additive. A field whose meaning must change, with four consumers reading it.

Tailwind 4, and the stylesheet we had already written

Deep diveFebruary 13, 20259 min read

4.0 in January, a CSS-first configuration, and a genuine reason to look again at a decision that had been made three times.

The snapshot I approved without reading

NoteFebruary 3, 20252 min read

A snapshot test that failed, an approval taken on the basis that the change was intentional, and a diff nobody opened. A snapshot test moves the verification from…