In this episode, I'm joined by Vitaly Sharovatov, Developer Advocate at Qase, to dive into one of the most overlooked yet impactful practices in software development: developers testing their own code
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We explore how shifting testing left—having developers test while building—saves time, avoids costly context-switching, and prevents bugs or misunderstandings from slipping through to QA or production. Vitaly also shares insights on how to structure your test strategy, balance manual vs. automated testing, and how tools like Qase can help teams stay organized and efficient with Test Management Systems (TMS).
Whether you're building solo or as part of a larger team, this conversation offers practical advice for writing more reliable code before it becomes someone else’s problem.
Link to the video on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/2ouS1rMTM74
Links and References
► Qase:
https://qase.io/
► ESP32 Weather Station project repository:
https://github.com/sharovatov/esp32-ws
Vitaly Sharovatov
Developer advocate @ Qase, Manager, Engineer, and Mentor
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The "fun code()" magazine is a one-time publication about Kotlin, created by Kotlin developers for Kotlin developers, and I had the pleasure of being one of the contributors. It was released during KotlinConf 2024 and received significant attention.
In this exciting episode, I had the opportunity to gather some of the key individuals involved in producing this paper magazine so we could discuss it. We discussed how the idea started, what the magazine includes, and the stories behind it.
Link to the video on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/SEBRBnh61nI
Links and References
► Website:
https://kotlintoday.com/
► GitHub repo:
https://github.com/kotlin-magazine/kotlin-magazine
► Twitter:
https://twitter.com/@funcode_mag
► Mastodon:
https://mastodon.social/@funcode_mag
Attendees in Alphabetical Order
Chet Haase
► Twitter:
https://twitter.com/@chethaase
Enrique López Mañas
► Twitter:
https://twitter.com/@eenriquelopez
Marc Reichelt
► Twitter:
https://twitter.com/@mreichelt
► Mastodon:
https://mastodon.social/@mreichelt
Mario Bodemann
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https://androiddev.social/@mariobodem...
Mariusz Sołtysiak
► LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariusz-s...
► Blog:
https://kotlinbackend.com/
Matthias Geisler
► Twitter:
https://twitter.com/@BitPogo
Nicole Terc
► Twitter:
https://twitter.com/@nicole-terc
► Mastodon:
https://androiddev.social/@nicole_terc
Siggi Gunnarsson
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https://twitter.com/sigurdur
► Mastodon:
https://mastodon.online/@sigurdur
Thanks to Guillem Roca for the KotlinConf 2024 incident video:
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Alejandra Stamato is an Android community active member who recently switched from being an Android Developer Relations Engineer at Google, working in Compose text and architecture, to a product role as Android Technical Lead at HubSpot. In this friendly interview, she will share with us her story and career path.
Link to the video on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/52NCS68uoMA
Links and References
► Ale's Twitter:
https://twitter.com/@astamatok
► Ale's LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alejandra-stamato/
► Ale's TextField in Jetpack Compose: past, present, and future - Droidcon London 2023 talk:
https://www.droidcon.com/2023/11/15/textfield-in-jetpack-composepast-present-and-future/
► Ale's Write it down: Using text in Jetpack Compose - Droidcon Berlin 2022 talk:
https://www.droidcon.com/2022/08/01/write-it-down-using-text-in-jetpack-compose/
► Ale's BasicTextField2 articles:
► Ale's Swipe and Savor: Building a swipeable Snackbar in Compose article:
https://medium.com/@astamato/swipe-and-savor-building-a-swipeable-snackbar-in-compose-c696cbe72135
► A sample GitHub repo of Android Interview Questions:
https://github.com/mohsenoid/Android-Interview-Questions
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Nicole Terc is an Android community active member who, last year, had 3 talks at 3 different Droidcon events. She has recently joined the Dance Company as Software Engineering Lead, and in this friendly interview, she will share with us her story and career path.
Link to the video on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/6bVy_1kPgCU
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► Nicole's Twitter:
https://twitter.com/@nicole-terc
► Nicole's Mastodon:
https://androiddev.social/@nicole_terc
► Nicole's LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicoleterc
► Nicole's Composable Sheep Trilogy Talks:
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Philipp Lackner is an Android YouTuber currently focusing mostly on his channel and training Android developers at the industrial level, and is one of the Android Community's active members. Having a large number of followers, he is a well-known face among the Android trainers who recently moved to Berlin!
In this interview, which happened during Droidcon Berlin 2022, you will learn more about his lifestyle, his ideas about Android development, and his latest talk about Kotlin Coroutines.
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► Philipp's Twitter:
https://twitter.com/@plcoding
► Philipp's YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/PhilippLackner
► Philipp's Instagram:
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Ivan Morgillo is a freelance Android Developer currently working for Novoda, the co-host of Code with the Italians, and one of the Android Community's active members. He is a well-known face in the Berlin Android meetup group who recently moved back to Italy!
In this interview, you will learn more about his lifestyle, his ideas about Android development, and his recent contributions to the Android community.
Links to the video on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/vXG3ayn5Lsg
Links and References:
► Ivan's Twitter
https://twitter.com/@hamen
► Code with the Italians
https://www.twitch.tv/codewiththeitalians
https://www.youtube.com/CodewiththeItalians
► Ivan's personal weblog
https://www.ivanmorgillo.com/
► Ivan's Kindle app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.dronix.android.kindlegratis
► Ivan's talk at Droidcon Berlin 2015 - Android Reactive Programming with RxJava
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCLZ55M2gVo
► Ivan's talk at Geekfest 2018 - "Can You Read My Code?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JKrytnXZSM
► Ivan's talk at Mobius 2020 - Design for errors — an introduction to Domain modeling with a bit of Arrow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvEky8W2mJ4
► "Domain-Driven Design" book
https://www.amazon.de/-/en/dp/0321125215/
► "Domain Modeling Made Functional" book
https://www.amazon.de/-/en/dp/1680502549/
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Danny Preussler is an Android Engineer at SoundCloud and an active member of the Android Community. He is well known for all the Droidcon Berlin opening sessions he hosted, and many talks around testing and TDD, and is also a well-known face in the Berlin Android meetup group.
In this interview, you will learn more about his lifestyle, his ideas about Android development, and his recent contributions to the Android community.
Links to the video on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/pbl0Lw3PFYo
Links and References:
► Danny's Twitter:
https://twitter.com/@PreusslerBerlin
► Danny's latest article - Interpreting voice results for Android media apps in cars
https://medium.com/proandroiddev/interpreting-voice-results-for-android-media-apps-in-cars-f36d7bdb26e1
► Danny's talk at Droidcon Berlin 2013 - "Unit tests with Robolectric"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tns9zrjQ108
► Danny's talk at Droidcon Zagreb 2016 - All around the world -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk78DRUoIIA
► Danny's talk at Droidcon Berlin 2017 - The power of Kotlin for your tests
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3e9KRfGqsQ
► Danny's talk at Droidcon Berlin 2018 - To inject or not to inject dependency in a Kotlin world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUKtxzqLyKM
► Danny's talk at Droidcon NYC 2018 - Junit5: the next-gen of testing, don't stay behind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fIkkoPtPaw
► Danny's talk at Android Makers Paris 2019 - Effective Unit Testing with Kotlin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cc69W9c3l-c
► Danny's talk at DevFest 2019 - TDD on Android
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW5TL7070xU
► Danny's favorite playlists
https://soundcloud.com/pauli-pocket/pauli-pocket-at-klunkerkranich-290320
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https://soundcloud.com/charlottedewittemusic/newform4
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Seyed Jafari is a Software Engineer at Revolut Ltd and an active member of the Android Community. In this interview, you will learn more about his lifestyle, his ideas about Android development, and his recent contributions to the Android community.
Links to the video on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/2WcyqdHRNos
Links and References:
► Seyed's Twitter
https://twitter.com/@seyedjafariy
► Seyed's Salary Tweet
https://twitter.com/@seyedjafariy/status/1441473075082498050
► Seyed's talk at Droidcon London - "Crashing is good for your app"
https://www.droidcon.com/2021/11/17/crashing-is-good-for-your-app/
► JetBrains Toolbox app
https://www.jetbrains.com/toolbox-app/
► Seyed's side project
https://github.com/islamversity/Reyan/
► "String.format() 3x faster in Java 17" article
https://www.javaspecialists.eu/archive/Issue294-String.format-3x-faster-in-Java-17.html
► "Always provide a Modifier parameter" article
https://chris.banes.dev/always-provide-a-modifier/
► ConEmu - Handy Windows Terminal
https://conemu.github.io/
► Java learning resource for Persians
https://javacup.ir/javacup-training-videos/
► Custom Android ROMs forum
https://www.xda-developers.com/
► The impostor syndrome talk at Droidcon Berlin 2021
https://www.droidcon.com/2021/11/10/inhibiting-the-impostor-dcbln21/
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Benjamin Kadel is a Senior Android Developer at Babbel, a YouTuber, and an active member of the Android community. In this interview, you will learn more about his lifestyle, his ideas about Android development, and his recent contributions to the Android community.
Links to the video on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/7fcb5HiaFYE
Links and References:
► Ben's Twitter
https://twitter.com/ben_kadel
► Ben's landing page
https://kardelio.github.io/
► Ben's GitHub
https://github.com/kardelio
► Ben's LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/benkadel/
► Ben's YouTube channel
https://www.youtube.com/benkadel
► Ben's ADB tutorial video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOPcUjVl2YQ
► Ben's Imposter Syndrome video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt1uWGFABT0
► Ben's Live Stream MVVM Recipe app + Compose
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3Y9MECuxct3Od7W_AcOvpo-PZD2NHbDe
► Ben & Ahmed Mabrook talk at Droidcon Berlin 2021
https://www.droidcon.com/2021/11/10/the-journey-of-adopting-jetpack-compose-in-babbels-app/
► Ben's Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/artist/3utxjLheHaVEd9bPjQRsy8
https://open.spotify.com/artist/72udTJKu1pGovvS9aCYGMI
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2aH7evp0BkRuKLLXH5hCdh
► "Best practices for coroutines in Android" documentation
https://developer.android.com/kotlin/coroutines/coroutines-best-practices
► "Add conditional Modifier without sacrificing its fluent API" article
https://proandroiddev.com/add-modifier-conditionally-without-sacrificing-its-fluent-api-a572cc085fb2
► Screen Copy (scrcpy) tool
https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy
► Google Play PolicyBytes - July 2021 policy updates
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhtKIZPfZMs
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