A blog about software engineering, programming languages and technical tinkering
Posted by Simon Larsén in Blog
In 2019, I presented RepoBee at the ITiCSE conference in Aberdeen. This year, ITiCSE went virtual, but RepoBee still made an appearance in the new tools and tricks section with a small, two-page paper. Although I let my co-author Ric Glassey deal with the virtual presentation, I'm still quite proud …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Testing
This is the third part of a series of small articles detailing some of the
functionality of the pytest testing
framework that I find most essential. The series assumes you know how to run
tests with pytest already.
In this third part, we'll take a super quick look at the …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Testing
This is the second part of a series of small articles detailing some of the
functionality of the pytest testing
framework that I find most essential. The series assumes you know how to run
tests with pytest already.
In this second part, we'll take a look at the -k and …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Blog
After five long years of studies (seven if you include the two years of materials science), I've finally graduated with an MSc in Computer Science and Engineering from KTH Royal Institute of Technology. I'm still awaiting my degree certificates, but the thesis is published and I don't have to do …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Linux
On any Linux distribution, there's a file located at /etc/passwd. This file
contains information about users that exist on the system, including their
username, user id, group id and more. In this short article, I'll outline the
structure of the /etc/passwd file, and also illuminate why it doesn't …