How this tester learned
to write code

Joep Schuurkes @j19sch

some things about myself

languages I have used

other things about myself

and it gets even worse

... and worse

The value of another's experience
is to give us hope,
not to tell us how or whether to proceed.

- Peter Block

the story of how I got started

Perl (2011)

while (<$tpl>) {
  my $tplln = $_;
  chomp $tplln;
  foreach my $group (keys %sfile) {
    if ($sfile{$group}[0] == $i) {
      if (index ($tplln, $sfile{$group}[1]) != -1
            && $sfile{$group}[2] eq 'skip')
      	{
        $tplln = "";
      } else {
        $tplln =~ s{$sfile{$group}[1]}{$sfile{$group}[2]};
      }
    }
  }
  print $req $tplln or die "Kan niet schrijven naar $req.";
}
			

the story of how
I impressed myself for the first time

VBA for Excel (2013)

'Apply filter criteria on columns to be filterd
Dim j As Integer
For j = LBound(ArrColNames) To UBound(ArrColNames)
  If InStr(ArrCritsRaw(j), ";") <> 0 Then
  ' Multiple criteria present, so only select possible
      Dim ArrSplit() As String
      ArrSplit = Split(ArrCritsRaw(j), ";")
      Selection.AutoFilter Field:=ArrColNames(j), Criteria1:=ArrSplit,
			    Operator:=xlFilterValues
  Else
    ' Single criterium present, so select, deselect, empty, notempty,
		' greater/smaller than possible
      Selection.AutoFilter Field:=ArrColNames(j), Criteria1:=ArrCritsRaw(j),
			    Operator:=xlFilterValues
  End If
Next j
			

the story of how I finally
learned some dev skills

Python (2015)

def test_create_new_app(app_name):
  print "Creating project with name " + app_name

  project_id = ProjectsAPI.create_new_app_sync(username, apikey, app_name)
  print "Project with id " + str(project_id) + " created."

  check_project_details_in_sprintr(project_id)
  check_project_and_svnproperties_on_teamserver(project_id)
  check_events_in_platform_analytics(project_id)

def check_project_and_svnproperties_on_teamserver(projectid):
  svnrepo_uri = teamserver_url + projectid

  assert (teamserver.check_if_repo_exists(svnrepo_uri) is True)
  assert (teamserver.check_if_repo_contains_mpr(svnrepo_uri, app_name) is True)
  check_if_svn_properties_are_set(svnrepo_uri, projectid, app_name)
  check_if_silent_conversion_svn_revision_property_is_set(svnrepo_uri)
			

to summarize

you have

two testing super-powers

that will help you

some practical things

sites

books

games

thank you!