Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort. — John Ruskin In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to raise the bar of our test coverage by taking a simple app from good to excellent coverage. But first, let’s understand some terminologies. Mocks Mocks (and mock expectations)…

Resilience is essentially a set of skills — as opposed to a disposition or personality type — that make it possible for people not only to get through hard times but to thrive during and after them. — Mandy Oaklander Andela Bootcamp has been filled with ups and down…

It’s the third day of self-learning, a lot has happened in these past few days. There’s been a lot of coding, testing, writing and above all, learning. Getting things done, asking questions when stuck has become habitual, I don’t think about it anymore, I just do it because, at Andela…

In preparation for Andela Bootcamp, I learned a lot and I still am. During the first week alone, I had to unlearn and relearn many of the things I already know. In the course of my learning, I picked up an important skill that’s expected of every developer who wants…

Andela is a global engineering organization with a mission to empower the next generation of tech leaders across the globe. One thing you’ll hear a lot when at Andela is the acronym EPIC. …

Learning is a lifelong journey filled with numerous challenges and obstacles. However, these impediments aren’t there to block us rather, serves as an opportunity to improve and become a better version of ourselves. DISCLAIMER: This is not an article about learning how to code. As a young lad who has…

If you’ve done any form of data manipulation on a relational database before, then you know how unpleasant it can be…writing long-boring queries to get little things done. Object Relational Mapping (ORM) is a pretty neat technique that allows us to query and manipulate data stored in a relational database…

A lot of the things we do everyday requires some form of testing and we don’t even realize it. From plugging your phone to a charger and checking if it’s actually charging to withdrawing money from an ATM and making sure it dispense the requested amount. The list goes on. …

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth. — Muhammad Ali Over a year ago, I was called up by NYSC (an organization set up by the Nigerian government to include the country’s graduate in the development of the country) for my youth service…