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SE Radio 572: Greg Kapfhammer on Flaky Tests

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SE Radio 572: Greg Kapfhammer on Flaky Tests

Gregory Kapfhammer, associate professor at Allegheny College, discusses the common problem of ‘flaky tests’ with SE Radio’s Nikhil Krishna. Flaky tests are test cases that unreliably pass or fail even when no changes are made to the source code under test or to the test suite itself, which means that developers can’t tell whether the […]

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SE Radio 568: Simon Bennetts on OWASP Dynamic Application Security Testing Tool ZAP

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SE Radio 568: Simon Bennetts on OWASP Dynamic Application Security Testing Tool ZAP

Simon Bennetts, a distinguished engineer at Jit, discusses one of the flagship projects of OWASP: the Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) open source security testing tool. As ZAP’s primary maintainer, Simon traces the tool’s origins and shares some anecdotes with SE Radio host Priyanka Raghavan on why there was a need for it. They take a […]

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Episode 527: Adrian Kennard and Kevin Hones on Writing a Network OS from Scratch

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Episode 527: Adrian Kennard and Kevin Hones on Writing a Network OS from Scratch

Adrian Kennard and Kevin Hones, founders of FireBrick routers and firewalls, discuss how to design, build, test, and support a hardware router and network operating system from scratch. Host Gavin Henry spoke with them about a vast array of topics, starting with component choices, embedded operating system design, testing, and release cycles. The conversation explores […]

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Episode 505: Daniel Stenberg on 25 years with cURL

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Episode 505: Daniel Stenberg on 25 years with cURL

Daniel Stenberg, founder and lead developer of cURL and libcurl, discusses what it’s been like looking after them for the past 25 years. Host Gavin Henry spoke with Stenberg about the history of cURL, libcurl, whether C was the right choice, portability, key events in those 25 years, implementing protocols, why HTTP is not so […]

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Episode 482: Luke Hoban on Infrastructure as Code

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Episode 482: Luke Hoban on Infrastructure as Code

Luke Hoban, CTO of Pulumi, joined host Jeff Doolittle for a conversation about infrastructure as code (IAC), which allows software development teams to configure and control their cloud infrastructure assets using code in contrast to other approaches such as using web interfaces or command line interfaces. Luke described how IAC allows teams to apply good […]

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