After years of working as a Business Analyst, I have always wanted to try my hand at public speaking in order to share some insights on topics I feel passionate about and things I have experienced. I have been lucky enough to have performed varying types of music in front of tens of thousands of…
When I’m writing production ready code I find that I spend 90% of my time writing test cases and 10% of the time writing the actual production code. There is a great temptation to take shortcuts when writing tests but there is one in particular I try to avoid. In this article I’m going to…
At Rightmove, we are no strangers to bringing in fresh talent and supporting graduate software engineers. We successfully ran a scheme around 3 years ago which allowed us to place 4 graduate software engineers from varying backgrounds with the majority still working for the company today. We are extremely proud to see how well they…
The Problem Ok, straight up; I have a real bugbear with Utils classes. To me, they’re a real code smell. Like month old milk kinda smell. I gag a little. And like old milk, it only gets worse over time. Let’s back up a bit; what do I mean by a Utils class? They can…
Like most Android projects, our UI tests use the Espresso framework to perform interactions on our test app, check an element is on the page, check the text of an element etc. Although our tests worked they were quite hard to read and it would take a bit of time for someone who hadn’t seen…
Searching for properties is one of the pillars on which our portal is built. What we used to understand as search before May 2018 was a set of rules to describe a binary logic – a given property either matches a user’s search or it doesn’t. As simple as that. But there’s much more to…
