So you want to add testeranto to your project?

Esbuild is one of my most favorite-est tools. It's built into the heart of testeranto, and it's used in 2 ways.

Testeranto is designed to integrate with other tools like Jira to connect "features" to your "tests". Each test can be tagged with a number of features, and these features can take multiple forms.

It's clear that AI is here to stay. If you are an old dog like me, it's wise you learn this new trick. Most approaches to AI assisted coding exist as prompts in the IDE, but testeranto takes a different approach. But first, lets consider why that approach is popular but also why it is not terribly useful.

Picture this: you’re chatting with an AI about your web project, saying things like, “Hey, make the sidebar padding smaller,” and it just happens. You hit “Accept All” on the suggestions, skip the nitty-gritty details, and watch your app come to life. It’s coding that feels like a breeze—perfect for weekend experiments or those moments when you just want to see your ideas take shape without overthinking it.

A lot of ink has already been spilt on the subject of TDD and how, why, when, where and for what reasons the methodology ought and ought not be applied. Nonetheless, I'd like to compose my thoughts on the subject, because, it is my humble opinion that TDD leads to a fundamentally better, happier place for software engineers. Note that I qualify that statement with "for software engineers"- managers, shareholders and spouses often have different priorities from those who are paid to press the buttons. But I myself am a coder. I like programming and I like to practice my craft well, effectively, but also kindly. Somewhat selfishly, I want to spend my working hours gracefully working the problem and that is not an unreasonable thing to want, given that we all spend decades at a time, laboring to enchant these infernal magic boxes to flip the right bits.

Here is a demo for a RogueState.ts I made over the weekend.

In a better world, such photos might still exist. The people in them would not have become nearly as rich or unaccountable or powerful as they are in this one, but there’s no reason to think that they would not have found each other in some refrigerated clubhouse or hotel dining room or breakout session or cigar bar. In that world, these men would not be any better than they are in this one, because they are what they are by nature—mutants of appetite and ego, and outliers from the rest of humanity in terms of both the depth and the breadth of their need. But in that other world, in which they are merely rich and terrible, they would threaten only the good times of the other people sharing those spaces with them.