Quality-Assurance

Why unit tests alone won’t save your LLM application in production, and how Mokksy — a Kotlin mock server with true SSE and streaming support — fills the gap that WireMock leaves wide open.

A deceptively simple rule transforms a chaotic development team: break the build, buy cookies. What starts as lighthearted motivation evolves into a psychological experiment in collective responsibility and technical excellence. Twelve developers, one trunk, zero tolerance for broken builds—watch as pair programming sessions intensify, commits shrink to surgical precision, and a team discovers that the path to engineering perfection is paved with chocolate chips and mutual accountability. Sometimes the most profound transformations begin with the smallest consequences.

Testing web UIs before the backend is ready: create UI mockups first using fake data, turn them into a functional prototype, test thoroughly, then build the backend to match the UI data contract. Integrate frontend and backend at the end. Works for single-page apps and multi-page sites.

The article explains how to use Selenide, a wrapper around Selenium WebDriver, to simplify writing UI tests in Java. It provides a sample Maven POM file with configuration options for running tests in different browsers, locally or on a CI server, and leaving the browser open after tests.

The article presents ten key rules for software testing, focusing on practical day-to-day work