Testing for Gold

jeff@smithicus.com (Jefferson Smith) — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 07:27:40 +0000

For something as crucial as a financial tool, I want to be sure that plim is always extracting an accurate model of my finances from the data files I’ve download from my financial service providers. So, to ensure that new code never breaks that “ground truth,” I’ve added a simple golden file regression testing system, which gets automatically run every time I check in code changes with git.

By carefully curating a set of testing data that illustrates tricky situations and then hand-verifying that the model built from them is correct, I can ensure that plim will faithfully handle the weird cases, even when they occur in live data.

Grub Needs KOOLAID

jeff@smithicus.com (Jefferson Smith) — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 17:21:13 +0000

Even though it’s a 3-Easy project, I’m finding that Grub would still benefit from my new practice of having a KOOLAID file to encapsulate the project’s Zeitgeist. So before I post the repository to Codeberg, I need to write one.

And while I’m at it, I should include some screen captures of the existing displays, too.

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Testing for Gold

Grub Needs KOOLAID