Egor's Blog

Engineering is often viewed as a highly technical discipline where hard skills are the key to success. But if you take a closer look at what we - engineers - do in our daily jobs, a lot of it boils down to… communication! When we write code, submit pull requests,... [Read More]

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I constantly rave about how much I enjoy the code review culture at Cash App. My colleague Saket wrote an excellent post about it titled “Great teams merge fast”, where he goes into detail on how we approach shipping code. A very important aspect of this culture is crafting small,... [Read More]

Android’s testing story has come a long way since the early days (old timers might recall not being able to run unit tests on the local JVM, or struggling to write UI tests in the low on caffeine pre-Espresso world), and nowadays there’s a multitude of tools, both 1st and... [Read More]

Unit testing is one of my favorite software engineering techniques. In our industry, the word “testing” is strongly associated with the word “bug”, so the common belief is that unit tests help find/eradicate/prevent bugs. And while this is not untrue, there’s much more that unit testing can offer! Here’s my... [Read More]