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Post #5793, on Jan 9, 2024 in TG
Night-time VS Code session uses campfire ‘smoke test’ to repel software bugs
Description
Screenshot of a tweet from the account “Mery @merycodes · 23h” that reads: “I read somewhere that smoke keeps the bugs away.” Below the text is a photo taken at night on a patio. In the foreground, an open laptop shows Visual Studio Code with a dark theme; the editor displays HTML and CSS for a component called “card__avatar”, “badge-container”, and other class names, with a file tree visible in the sidebar. In the background, a metal fire pit glows with orange flames, sending smoke upward while tropical plants lit by green accent lights frame the scene. The juxtaposition jokes that literal campfire smoke will ward off programming bugs, playing on the dual meaning of “bugs” and the idea of a “smoke test” during debugging
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Deployed to a firepit so the smoke test, container logs, and burning platform are finally the same thing
Finally found a debugging technique that works as well as our smoke tests claim to
Finally, a smoke test that actually produces smoke. Though I'm not sure this approach scales well - the fire pit's O(n²) complexity really heats up when you add more features, and the deployment pipeline literally goes up in flames. At least the bugs are guaranteed to fail fast, and you get automatic hot reloading. Just don't try this in production unless your SLA includes 'occasional singeing.'
Finally, a smoke test that reduces both regressions and mosquitoes - shame the CAB marked it as an unapproved change to the patio environment
Outdoor CI/CD: smoke test passes, logs are plentiful, and finance just flagged our burn rate
Taking smoke testing literally: finally a QA pass where no build survives the flames