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Mobile test automation practices Part 2: preconditions, elements verification and independent…
Mobile test automation practices Part 2: preconditions, elements verification and independent…
Review 4 more examples of common test automation tasks, recommendations and share access to a test project with all the associated practices
Dmitrii Makarenko
Sep 1
Checkmate on Compose — Part II
Checkmate on Compose — Part II
Lessons learned from a Jetpack Compose-based chess app
Zsolt Kocsi
Sep 2
How to use Composite builds as a replacement of buildSrc in Gradle
How to use Composite builds as a replacement of buildSrc in Gradle
Gradle buildSrc approach has one major flaw — it invalidates a build cache on any change. In this article, describe how to avoid it.
Yury
Jul 30, 2020
Modularising the Badoo iOS app
Modularising the Badoo iOS app
Dealing with knock-on effects
Alexander Kulabukhov
Jun 18
Checkmate on Compose — Part I
Checkmate on Compose — Part I
Lessons learned from a Jetpack Compose-based chess app
Zsolt Kocsi
Aug 31
Mobile test automation practices Part 1: verifications, modules and basic actions
Mobile test automation practices Part 1: verifications, modules and basic actions
We are going to consider three examples of solutions to different tasks typical for autotest development and more
Dmitrii Makarenko
Aug 26
Unlimited throughput: how to increase auto-merge performance
Unlimited throughput: how to increase auto-merge performance
How we implemented automatic Git branch merging in the past and how we then increased the auto-merge performance.
Ruslan Osmanov
Aug 19
Working with partial mocks in PHPUnit 10
Working with partial mocks in PHPUnit 10
In this article, you will read about partial mocks, problems with setMethods, and how to migrate the tests to PHPUnit 10.
Victor Pryazhnikov
Jul 29
Effective extension function refactoring in Kotlin: companion object use case
Effective extension function refactoring in Kotlin: companion object use case
How to deal with extension functions that have transformed from lightweight additions to code into monsters with domain-coupled logic
Yury
Jul 22
API for QA: Testing features when you have no access to code
API for QA: Testing features when you have no access to code
I explain the QAAPI concept — an internal tool to help testers — and how it is implemented at Bumble
Sergey Ryabko
Jul 8
Who, where, when: a components system for allotting team member responsibilities
Who, where, when: a components system for allotting team member responsibilities
How we used the component approach to solve the problem of division of responsibility and make the process of updating info quick and easy
Eugene Tupikov
Jul 6
Scalable Jetpack Compose Navigation
Scalable Jetpack Compose Navigation
Exploring how to avoid a potential god-class NavHost
Lachlan McKee
Jun 3
Writing Kotlin Parcelize compiler plugin for iOS
Writing Kotlin Parcelize compiler plugin for iOS
This article describes my experience writing a Kotlin compiler plugin. My primary goal was to create a Kotlin compiler plugin for iOS…
Arkadii Ivanov
May 18
How 3 Process Patterns will change the way you do Test Automation
How 3 Process Patterns will change the way you do Test Automation
What issues, when using autotests more in our development, we’ve struggled with the most and some recommendations on how to overcome them.
Uladzislau Ramanenka
Apr 27
System under control — how to automate integration tests
System under control — how to automate integration tests
About our experience in developing the framework for integration tests for distributed systems but also the general principles and more.
Kseniya Yakil
Apr 1
Modularising an iOS app
Modularising an iOS app
Why and how we have been breaking Badoo app up into modules
Alexander Kulabukhov
Mar 22
Run, config, run: How we speed up config deploy
Run, config, run: How we speed up config deploy
Learn how the config deploy process was set up and the tools we use.
Eugene Tupikov
Mar 12
The story of the lost commit: how to solve this mystery
The story of the lost commit: how to solve this mystery
We made another patch to the master branch, uploaded the changes. With a clear mind, I’ve decided to return to the problem.
Aleksandr Izmailov
Mar 9
Data classes in Kotlin: how do they impact an application size
Data classes in Kotlin: how do they impact an application size
With the help of an experiment, I will try to understand the real cost of using a high number of data classes in an application.
Yury
Mar 4
Interface localisation: adapting text fields for RTL languages
Interface localisation: adapting text fields for RTL languages
Find out about the several minor but interesting issues we discovered when adapting HTML forms on the Badoo.com site for Hebrew and Arabic.
Mitya Kuznetsov
Dec 17, 2020
BPF and Go: Modern forms of introspection in Linux
BPF and Go: Modern forms of introspection in Linux
You will lear why we need something like BPF, help you understand when and how to use it and how it can help you to improve projects
Marko Kevac
Dec 15, 2020
How we achieved a 6x reduction of ANRs. Part 2: Fixing ANRs
How we achieved a 6x reduction of ANRs. Part 2: Fixing ANRs
Find out more on what problems we found in our application, how we fixed them, and the results we achieved.
Nickolay Chameyev
Dec 11, 2020
How we achieved a 6x reduction of ANRs. Part 1: Collecting Data
How we achieved a 6x reduction of ANRs. Part 1: Collecting Data
In Part 1 of this series, we will discuss what ANR is and what are the best ways of tracking them.
Nickolay Chameyev
Dec 11, 2020
Catching bugs on a client
Catching bugs on a client
How we developed our error tracking system
Eugene Tupikov
Dec 3, 2020
Introduction of View Styles at Bumble
Introduction of View Styles at Bumble
Learn how we create 100% shareable iOS UI components and style them to be used in different parts of Bumble and Badoo apps.
Andrei Simvolokov
Oct 20, 2020
How to move large-scale React UI-components codebase to TypeScript
How to move large-scale React UI-components codebase to TypeScript
I am going to describe how we delivered this project without interrupting feature delivery and organised stage-by-stage onboarding
Ivan Grekov
Sep 3, 2020
MVI in Kotlin Multiplatform — part 3 (3 of 3)
MVI in Kotlin Multiplatform — part 3 (3 of 3)
In this part, we are going to cover the Kittens module with unit and integration tests.
Arkadii Ivanov
Jul 28, 2020
Checking your app’s paid services without losing money
Checking your app’s paid services without losing money
In this article, you will learn about methods that Badoo and Bumble employ in testing paid services.
Vladimir Solodov
Jun 30, 2020
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