If it has Text, it is Pain
Mia Rose Winter 5/1/2024I've been meaning to write tests for Wave for a while. Honestly, in my 12 years of dev I never actually wrote one outside of the odd academic homework assignment, so I had no idea how to approach it. After a couple of videos and video presentations about general unit tests, TDD and stuff, I actually got intrigued, and with a bug discovered just today by a coworker in Wave I was baffled by I thought, okay, let's dissect this little Käfer. Prerequisites: What does Wave do here actually If you have not authored an article on Wave before, let me give you some background. When you want to load a specific article in the article view, there are three methods, two actively used and one historical, to find it. The first and most direct, the “permalink” if you will, is going to /article/{id}, with the UUIDv4 ID of the article. This is used for stuff like the article editor and during the draft and review process when the other method doesn't work, and maybe one day there will be a &l