#Code coverage

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Node.js Testing Strategies and Tools

Node.js Testing Strategies and Tools: A Comprehensive Guide

Introduction Testing is a crucial part of the software development process, ensuring that your code works as expected and helps prevent future regressions. In the context of Node.js applications, there are various strategies and tools available to perform testing efficiently. This guide will cover the different types of testing strategies and the tools you can use to implement them in your…

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Benefits of High Code Coverage - Edu-Art

Code coverage offers several significant benefits in software development. Firstly, it provides a clear measure of how much of your code has been tested, enabling you to identify untested areas and ensure comprehensive testing. This, in turn, leads to improved software quality, as more defects are detected and resolved early in the development process. High code coverage also enhances software reliability, reduces the cost of bug fixing, and facilitates easier code maintenance and updates. Moreover, it instills confidence in your software's performance, increases customer satisfaction, and ensures compliance with quality standards. In essence, code coverage is a fundamental practice that not only helps prevent issues but also fosters more efficient and reliable software development.

[jimbuchan]

Automate The Foundation Not Just The Furniture

Considering all that your CRM provides so much as customization and manipulation of data, would it surprise you to learn that a similar function can also be done for the creation of new Fields in Salesforce? Depending on various factors that differ from business to business, the subject of automating the creation of fields may never come up, but when it does (particularly when a large amount of fields need to be created), your time can be cut dramatically in comparison to manually creating them. Much like bulk creation (or removal) of records using Data Loader, you can accomplish the same convenience with field creation… after all, you have the power to manipulate and change the Data in your system… why not your MetaData? Bulk Object Field Creator can accomplish the insertion of new fields rapidly with 1 action, as opposed to tens or hundreds of individual updates, and within the same routine, they can be created all within single (or multiple) Profiles as well as being assigned to various Page Layouts. This is particularly useful when you have hundreds of fields which need to be created for a given Object… a task that can take a fair amount of time if performed manually.  As a time comparison, consider as a baseline that it takes approx. 1 minute to create a single field (i.e. Field Type / Field Name / Profile and Layout). If the amount of fields you needed to create amounted to 250, this would put you in excess of 4 hours in one sitting. Realistically, it would likely take multiple days as the likelihood of other requests competing for your time during the day would likely be the case. In utilizing the BOFC tool, it would take only minutes to complete the same action, which would be accomplished in a 2-step process. First, the list of fields would be assembled in a CSV or XLS file and then imported via the tool with a few selections including Object, Field Type and Name, Required Checkbox, Description and Help Text information. Once entered, the only action required is to click the ‘Create New Fields’ button and presto… the fields are now completed automatically in about the same amount of time it takes to perform a standard Data Load.

But wait… there’s more. Along with the auto-generation of fields, the same can be done for creating (or cloning) Objects in mass as well as  Formula Fields and even Validation Rules. For those who are not yet familiar with the Apex Data Loader (or Dataloader.io) the difference in using a tool like BOFS is that the creation of these elements are done outside Salesforce by assembling your fields in Google Sheets or Excel. This represents a rapid means of entering your data without lag on the server and once completed, your Objects / Fields are completed in your environment in one shot. Taking the tool to further extremes, BOFC can also serve a a ‘Diff’ engine by comparing Objects / Fields between Production and Sandbox instances... a time-saving task which would otherwise require you to have keyboard and mouse-click superpowers. You can also use the application to move data between Orgs in just a few steps. Further, if your business has a requirement to export the Apex Code (including Code Coverage), BOFC also includes this feature.  While the majority of Meta-Data fields created will be done within Salesforce's native environment, when the opportunity arises for a vast amount of fields to be inserted, the Bulk Object Field Creator tool can save your firm time, both in development, and the often overlooked testing phase.  For those who have created large objects which need to be set up in multiple environments, there is nothing quite like the standardization and ease of use for this tool, which is custom suited for the developer / admin who is short on time and long on results.

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never had this experience before in my life but my new doctor / primary care has on her own organized my testosterone injections for every two weeks and figured out my hrt swiftly after receiving my blood work. when i say never i mean never after numerous ones have i had a doctor go out of their way to make sure i was getting the hrt i needed and it is so refreshing to feel cared for in a clinical way

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i am normal and spoke a normal amount about folklore and religious syncretism and esoterica while recording our dating sim podcast. and only mentioned flying phalluses thrice

[hannie-dul-set]

hello i lied 😔 fixed my study sched and i have zero room to actually write so the ricky fic is coming out next week instead 😔😔

[vanilla-voyeur]

I knew moving from a FAANG to a midsized company outside of the software field would be an adjustment. But I was not prepared for the sheer number of things that are just baffling design decisions.

The stuff that everyone recognizes needs to be fixed but haven't had the time to knock out is understandable. It's the stuff that people are like "and what about it?" for the absolute wildest design choices that perplex me the most.

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[lwieserce]

THATS 4 5*S TO SKIP IN A ROW THANK FUCKING GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I CAN SAVE UP.

[mckinlily]

Plot armor but it’s Bruce Wayne’s wealth.

Bruce is one of the richest men in the world. Bruce does not want to be one of the richest men in world.

He starts by implementing high starting salaries and full health care coverages for all levels at Wayne Enterprises. This in vastly improves retention and worker productivity, and WE profits soar. He increases PTO, grants generous parental and family leave, funds diversity initiatives, boosts salaries again. WE is ranked “#1 worker-friendly corporation”, and productively and profits soar again.

Ok, so clearly investing his workers isn’t the profit-destroying doomed strategy his peers claim it is. Bruce is going to keep doing it obviously (his next initiative is to ensure all part-time and contractors get the same benefits and pay as full time employees), but he is going to have to find a different way to dump his money.

But you know what else is supposed to be prohibitively expensive? Green and ethical initiatives. Yes, Bruce can do that. He creates and fund a 10 year plan to covert all Wayne facilities to renewable energy. He overhauls all factories to employ the best environmentally friendly practices and technologies. He cuts contracts with all suppliers that engage in unethical employment practices and pays for other to upgrade their equipment and facilities to meet WE’s new environmental and safety requirements. He spares no expense.

Yeah, Wayne Enterprises is so successful that they spin off an entire new business arm focused on helping other companies convert to environmentally friendly and safe practices like they did in an efficient, cost effective, successful way.

Admittedly, investing in his own company was probably never going to be the best way to get rid of his wealth. He slashes his own salary to a pittance (god knows he has more money than he could possibly know what to do with already) and keeps investing the profits back into the workers, and WE keeps responding with nearly terrifying success.

So WE is a no-go, and Bruce now has numerous angry billionaires on his back because they’ve been claiming all these measures he’s implementing are too expensive to justify for decades and they’re finding it a little hard to keep the wool over everyone’s eyes when Idiot Softheart Bruice Wayne has money spilling out his ears. BUT Bruce can invest in Gotham. That’ll go well, right?

Gotham’s infrastructure is the OSHA anti-Christ and even what little is up to code is constantly getting destroyed by Rogue attacks. Surely THAT will be a money sink.

Except the only non-corrupt employer in Gotham city is….Wayne Enterprises. Or contractors or companies or businesses that somehow, in some way or other, feed back to WE. Paying wholesale for improvement to Gotham’s infrastructure somehow increases WE’s profits.

Bruce funds a full system overhaul of Gotham hospital (it’s not his fault the best administrative system software is WE—he looked), he sets up foundations and trusts for shelters, free clinics, schools, meal plans, day care, literally anything he can think of.

Gotham continues to be a shithole. Bruce Wayne continues to be richer than god against his Batman-ingrained will.

Oh, and Bruice Wayne is no longer viewed as solely a spoiled idiot nepo baby. The public responds by investing in WE and anything else he owns, and stop doing this, please.

Bruce sets up a foundation to pay the college tuition of every Gotham citizen who applies. It’s so successful that within 10 years, donations from previous recipients more than cover incoming need, and Bruce can’t even donate to his own charity.

But by this time, Bruce has children. If he can’t get rid of his wealth, he can at least distribute it, right?

Except Dick Grayson absolutely refuses to receive any of his money, won’t touch his trust fund, and in fact has never been so successful and creative with his hacking skills as he is in dumping the money BACK on Bruce. Jason died and won’t legally resurrect to take his trust fund. Tim has his own inherited wealth, refuses to inherit more, and in fact happily joins forces with Dick to hack accounts and return whatever money he tries to give them. Cass has no concept of monetary wealth and gives him panicked, overwhelmed eyes whenever he so much as implies offering more than $100 at once. Damian is showing worrying signs of following in his precious Richard’s footsteps, and Babs barely allows him to fund tech for the Clocktower. At least Steph lets him pay for her tuition and uses his credit card to buy unholy amounts of Batburger. But that is hardly a drop in the ocean of Bruce’s wealth. And she won’t even accept a trust fund of only one million.

Jason wins for best-worst child though because he currently runs a very lucrative crime empire. And although he pours the vast, vast majority of his profits back into Crime Alley, whenever he gets a little too rich for his tastes, he dumps the money on Bruce. At this point, Bruce almost wishes he was being used for money laundering because then he’s at least not have the money.

So children—generous, kindhearted, stubborn till the day they die the little shits, children—are also out.

Bruce was funding the Justice League. But then finances were leaked, and the public had an outcry over one man holding so much sway over the world’s superheroes (nevermind Bruce is one of those superheroes—but the public can’t know that). So Bruce had to do some fancy PR trickery, concede to a policy of not receiving a majority of funds from one individual, and significantly decrease his contributions because no one could match his donations.

At his wits end, Bruce hires a team of accounts to search through every crinkle and crevice of tax law to find what loopholes or shortcuts can be avoided in order to pay his damn taxes to the MAX.

The results are horrifying. According to the strictest definition of the law, the government owes him money.

Bruce burns the report, buries any evidence as deeply as he can, and organizes a foundation to lobby for FAR higher taxation of the upper class.

All this, and Wayne Enterprises is happily chugging along, churning profit, expanding into new markets, growing in the stock market, and trying to force the credit and proportionate compensation on their increasingly horrified CEO.

Bruce Wayne is one of the richest men in the world. Bruce Wayne will never not be one of the richest men in the world.

But by GOD is he trying.

[thbpbpthptp]

BRO MY NEW JOB MAKES ME SO FUCKIN CYNICAL RN MANNNN ALL THIS FUCKING CORPORATE SPEAK AND “GROWTH” AND “OPTIMIZATION” AND “MARKETING” I CANT I CANT I CANT IM GONNA EXPLODE BRO

[piinfeathers]

just in case anyone missed this in the news or maybe not in the loop, Disney is currently refusing to meet with or acknowledge the newly formed animation production workers union that just voted to join IASTE and become an official part of TAG, the animators and animation artists guild

production workers across all studios are currently voting to be recognized for their hard work and invaluable skill at keeping these productions running, but studios are refusing to meet with them to let them negotiate deals or even exist

as someone who works in animation as a designer i know i wouldn't be able to do my job at all without any of my production workers. they are the incredibly hard working people who oversee pretty much everything in animation. they make sure everything is running on time, that schedules are being followed, they have to know pretty much every single word of the scripts and beats from the storyboards to make sure nothing is missed, and most importantly, they make sure artists are being taken care of and not overworked. they really are the unsung heroes of the animation world

production workers are also by far the most exploited workers in animation currently. they make about a fraction of what artists make for just as much work put in, and currently have no agreement for health coverage or other benefits that artists protected by the union are guaranteed

BUT! there is some good news. right now there's a petition on IATSE's website that has over 80,000 signatures currently addressed to disney leadership to do the right thing and meet with this new union and recognized their vote to form. it still needs roughly 21,000 signatures and only takes a minute to sign! anyone with a zip or postal code can sign, meaning both US and Canadian residents can sign and help this union get the deal it deserves!!

[codingchica]

Inline, Unnamed Methods! Lambda Expressions

Lambda expressions are unnamed Java functions defined in-line in the source code where they are used. #java #lambdaExpressions #syntax

TIP: References Quick List Java: Lambda Expressions Javadoc: Package java.util.function Javadoc: package java.util.stream Table of Contents Table of ContentsIntroductionSyntaxZero Explicit Input ParametersOne Explicit Input ParameterTwo Explicit Input ParametersSingle Instruction Lambda ExpressionsMulti-Instruction Lambda ExpressionsJaCoCo Code CoverageSummary Introduction As of Java 8, we…

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So. I've Cracked The Code On The Appearance Changes in Side Order.

Wall of photos and such incoming.

After a lot of testing, I've discovered there are 7 different little lights and doodads that are added to Agent 8 via upgrading certain chips, each with a basic 1st tier and and upgraded 2nd tier. The 1st tier of upgrades appear after picking up two of the same chips in that changes pool (ex: 2 Homing Shots chips), with the 2nd tier appearing after picking up five of them (ex: 5 Homing Shot chips). There is no further visual indicators added for maxing chips that go beyond 5, such as Splash Damage or Rush Attack.

Full disclaimer: This is the result of researching a LOT of my own runs, so I can say this is true with about 95% certainty. If I labeled an ability chip in the wrong visual pool, please let me know!

Let's start with the basics - our control group. No Teal upgrades provide any visible changes to Agent 8 (or Pearl-bot for that matter), so I ran an all-teal palette to demonstrate.

First is likely one of the more requested visual changes - the Headset. The 1st tier sports a basic metallic earpiece, with the 2nd adding an antenna and eyepiece that match your primary ink color.

Maxing Splash Damage, Sound Wave Damage, Splash Radius, Special Charge Up, Turf Lucky Chain, Rush Knockback, and Homing Shots all provide the headset!

Next up is Ink Bubbles. The 1st tier shows transparent, slower bubbles flowing in 8's ink tank, with the bubbles being faster and more opaque in the 2nd tier.

Nabbing Poison Ink, Splat Ink Recovery, Ink Saver Sub, Ink Recovery Rate, Sticky Ink, and Explosion Knockback all provide Ink Bubbles.

Following that is the Fins. The 1st tier shows the base shackles being added to 8's boots, with the fins themselves being added for the 2nd tier.

Picking up Run Speed, Swim Speed, Rush Attack, Mobile Ink Recovery, Mobile Special Charge, and Mobile Drone Gauge all provide the Fins.

Now, moving on to the weapon upgrades!

First we have the Muzzle Lights, which appear at the muzzle of most weapons, and the sides of the brush and roller nearest the base. The 1st tier shows a circle and squares circling around the muzzle, with the 2nd tier being more exaggerated, with alternating squares and rectangles forming a hexagon pattern in the center.

These are exclusive to the Ink Damage, Main Damage (Close), and Main Damage (Distant) chips.

Next up is likely the most common visual one can see on their run - the Arrows. The 1st tier shows a circle with three arrows pointing down the weapon, with the 2nd tier adding some blowback markers behind the circle.

These are on a whopping TEN upgrades, being Splatling Barrage, Main Firing Speed, Horizontal Slash Speed, Main Range, Main Piercing, Main Ink Coverage, Rush Ink Coverage, Quick Charge, Shot Spread Reduction, and Ink Saver Main.

Last of the weapon upgrades are the Dots. The 1st tier is 3 large dots and a circle spinning at the bottom of your weapon or around your wrist, with the 2nd tier adding another circle around the dots.

These can be found on the Hindrance Damage, Ink Attack Size, Charge Storage, Moving Ink Speed, Extra Dodge Roll, Brella Cooldown, and Knockback upgrades.

And finally, my favorite little knick-knack, the Shrimp Hook. This little guy appears on your ink tank after picking up 2 matching Luck upgrades (ex: Lucky Bomb Drop, Canned Special Drop, etc), and begins to glow after picking up 5. However, the glowing effect is not visible in the post-game screen. 😔 (I would totally buy one of these if someone made one, btw)

By the way, 7 visual upgrades * 5 chips needed to max each visual is 35 chips, which is just shy of the 36 total chips you can have on one palette, which means, in theory, you could. Have every maxed visual indicator on in one run.

Just a thought. : )

[gwmac]

Behind Smiles: A Patient's Nightmare with MetLife Dental Insurance

Part 1: My Battle with MetLife Dental. The Toothache that Morphed into a Financial Migraine. My fateful journey through the MetLife Dental Insurance labyrinth began in February 2023 when an everyday occurrence turned into an exasperating ordeal. I needed a routine replacement crown on Tooth 18 and anticipated no issues, given my dental insurance with MetLife Dental. As I would soon discover,…