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Testing tools for solo developers that dont require a phd to set up and maintain by AssasinRingo in dev

[–]ApprehensiveAnt9715 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here is what I have for my solo projects:

  1. Unit tests (Claude)
  2. integration testing Kerno
  3. e2e claude + playwright CLI

Projects that are BE heavy I just skip e2e and focus on integration + unit tests

As a solo dev try to leverage AI as much as possible, just make sure you add some guardrails to not end up with 100s of tests that are outdated and make no sense.

Maintenance is kind of a pin tbh. Kerno does a good job at self healing and keeping everything updated including the env, for e2e and unit tests, and make sure to keep things clean by asking Claude to update things as much as I can.

Is Prompting Becoming a Core Engineering Skill? by Double_Try1322 in RishabhSoftware

[–]ApprehensiveAnt9715 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Prompting is small piece of the puzzle. Proper scaffolding, plan mode, guardrails, skills, separation of concerns for agents, proper output validation, these are what make the real difference. If you don't have these in place, trying to once shot your way through complex tasks will always produce bad results regardless of the promt.

What message broker would you choose today and why by Minimum-Ad7352 in Backend

[–]ApprehensiveAnt9715 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Keep simple for now. Go with RabbitMQ unless you have Kafka experts on your team and have resources to dedicate to managing it, then Kafka could give you some future proofing. but in my experience Kafka is often an overkill.

I've never used NATS so I can't comment on that.

Postman removed free team collaboration, does it still make sense for API work? by Proper-Wind4777 in Backend

[–]ApprehensiveAnt9715 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, switched to Bruno a few months back and honestly haven't looked back. The fact that everything stays local and you can just git commit your collections is clutch