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Chris Mathew

Creating Android Lint Checks: A Survival Guide

At Wealthfront, we’ve observed that the cost of resolving an issue becomes exponentially higher the later it is discovered. For example, a defect discovered at design time is far easier to resolve than one which has already reached our clients. And between those extremes, we can discover issues at code authoring, compilation, or automated test… Read more

September 12, 2023 , , ,

Chris Mathew

Designing a harness for readable, thorough Android tests

At Wealthfront, we are committed to automation – both in the products we build, and in how we ensure quality. In this post we’ll explore how our automated test harness enables Android developers to quickly build tests for almost any scenario. Part 1: Writing “fluent” Espresso test code Since they are designed to operate in… Read more

September 14, 2022 , , , , ,

Wealthfront Team

Automating Data Quality Checks on External Data

Written by Emily Shiue and Melissa Chen The code was simple: query the third party API, if the “ModifiedAt” date returned was more recent than ours, send a notification to our clients. We had all the unit tests, integration tests, and monitoring in place. It had been running smoothly in production for months. So how… Read more


Adam Heimendinger

One-click Developer Login

On the Wealthfront iOS team, developer productivity is a top priority. Our infrastructure engineers develop new components and APIs to enable our product engineers to ship features faster, while our product engineers are empowered to identify and eliminate toil independently. Recently, we targeted one source of toil in the development workflow by automating login within… Read more