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Oliver Isaac
Shipping Containers: How We Built an Easy to Use Jenkins Pipeline for ECR
The DevOps team at Wealthfront has been in the process of migrating services to run inside containers. As part of this process we need a way to build containers using our CI/CD tool, Jenkins. While we could write a Jenkinsfile for each container image we wanted to build, we identified this was a good opportunity… Read more
Gerin Amalaraj
Speed up your Android Tests Part 2: End to End Test Filtering
End to end (E2E) tests play a crucial role in ensuring software quality and when implemented effectively, can eliminate the need for manual testing (see our engineering principles). However E2E tests are notoriously slow since they often involve navigating through multiple screens, making API calls, and running on real devices. In our previous blog post,… Read more
Grace Sun
H2 Framework: How We Test Our Automated Investing Infrastructure
At Wealthfront, we build automated investing systems that manage client portfolios with meticulous care by incorporating a large set of rules, optimizations, and input data. Testing such complex systems is inherently challenging; small code changes can interact in unexpected ways, which makes it crucial to have a robust framework that validates our investing decisions. To… Read more
Gurmeet Saran
Our Journey to Building a Scalable SQL Testing Library for Athena
Our analytics team plays a vital role in maintaining high-quality data that drives everything from key reports to experiments aimed at improving our products. Ensuring data reliability is critical, and to achieve this, we’ve built a robust SQL testing library for Athena. A strong data foundation isn’t just about accuracy—it’s about reliability. That’s why testing… Read more
Jordan Wood
How 40 Lines of Code Sped Up iOS End to End Tests by over 50%
At Wealthfront, testing is one of our core engineering principles—in the form of unit and end-to-end testing on all platforms. The iOS team in particular manages its own CI infrastructure to run tests against an integration server mirroring our production environment. With roughly 30k unit tests and nearly 1k iOS end-to-end tests (and counting), speeding… Read more
Gerin Amalaraj
Speed Up Your Android Tests: Gradle Plugin for Unit Test Filtering
Writing tests is a fundamental part of writing good software. They help us to catch bugs, be confident in our changes and serve as documentation. At Wealthfront, our Android team relies heavily on our automated test suite to maintain productivity and code quality — until we hit a snag. With our codebase maturing and our… Read more