For this week’s blog on quality assurance, I wanted to review what we learned most recently in class. I decided to watch a relatively short (24 min) tutorial on Mockito. It has been over a week since I’ve seen it, and there’s another few days until we meet again. I could use the refresher before then.
The tutorial I chose to watch was by a YouTuber named Walter Schilling. I thought he explained the concept very well. I will definitely bookmark his page for other concepts that I find challenging.
I thought it was a little bit of a complicated set up. I don’t think it was necessary to see the UML diagrams or as extensive of a walkthrough of how his code worked. He didn’t go excessively in depth, but I understood it pretty well after he gave a demonstration of the final code in action. (He typed in some inputs and showed what the output would be.) I didn’t need to know as much information on his example code. That’s not what I had come to see.
When he got to the mockito section, I was surprised at how little there seemed to be to it. I remember when we went over it in class, I didn’t think it was a very difficult concept, but I probably could not have done it without a little bit of review. After watching this tutorial, I have renewed my confidence that I am able to do it again.
I could see how someone might not like that his method wasn't polished and rehearsed. He would say something such as, "Why is that giving me an error,” or "I don't think I spelled [my variable name] correctly." It didn't take him long to diagnose any of these problems. I kind of liked this style. It gave me more confidence in my own abilities when I could sometimes diagnose something as quick if not quicker than he did on his own example. (To be fair though, most of them were simple fixes.)
Towards the end of his video, all of his tests were failing, and he couldn’t figure out why for a moment. Something small that I gleaned from this is that no matter how good you get, no one is ever perfect. I have a habit of putting myself down for not knowing everything or making simple mistakes. I should not be quite so hard on myself. Even the experts make mistakes. You could go one step further and say that if they never made mistakes, they would never learn from them and become experts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PgH0PwgEa8
The tutorial I chose to watch was by a YouTuber named Walter Schilling. I thought he explained the concept very well. I will definitely bookmark his page for other concepts that I find challenging.
I thought it was a little bit of a complicated set up. I don’t think it was necessary to see the UML diagrams or as extensive of a walkthrough of how his code worked. He didn’t go excessively in depth, but I understood it pretty well after he gave a demonstration of the final code in action. (He typed in some inputs and showed what the output would be.) I didn’t need to know as much information on his example code. That’s not what I had come to see.
When he got to the mockito section, I was surprised at how little there seemed to be to it. I remember when we went over it in class, I didn’t think it was a very difficult concept, but I probably could not have done it without a little bit of review. After watching this tutorial, I have renewed my confidence that I am able to do it again.
I could see how someone might not like that his method wasn't polished and rehearsed. He would say something such as, "Why is that giving me an error,” or "I don't think I spelled [my variable name] correctly." It didn't take him long to diagnose any of these problems. I kind of liked this style. It gave me more confidence in my own abilities when I could sometimes diagnose something as quick if not quicker than he did on his own example. (To be fair though, most of them were simple fixes.)
Towards the end of his video, all of his tests were failing, and he couldn’t figure out why for a moment. Something small that I gleaned from this is that no matter how good you get, no one is ever perfect. I have a habit of putting myself down for not knowing everything or making simple mistakes. I should not be quite so hard on myself. Even the experts make mistakes. You could go one step further and say that if they never made mistakes, they would never learn from them and become experts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PgH0PwgEa8
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