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Alexey Soshin
Alexey Soshin
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Alexey Soshin

Alexey Soshin is a software architect with 15 years of experience in the industry. He started exploring Kotlin when Kotlin was still in beta, and since then has been a big enthusiast of the language. He's a conference speaker, published writer, and the author of a video course titled Pragmatic System Design.
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The development team of our game has some real problems – and they're not related to code directly. As you may recall, our little indie company consists of only me, a canary named Michael that acts as a product manager, and two cat designers that sleep most of the day but produce some decent mockups from time to time. We have no Quality Assurance (QA) whatsoever. Maybe that's one of the reasons our game keeps crashing all the time.

Recently Michael has introduced me to a parrot named Kenny, who happens to be QA:

interface QA { 
    fun doesMyCodeWork(): Boolean 
} 
 
interface Parrot { 
    fun isEating(): Boolean 
    fun isSleeping(): Boolean 
} 
 
object Kenny : QA, Parrot { 
    // Implements interface methods based on parrot     // schedule 
}

Kenny is a simple object that implements two interfaces: QA, to do QA work, and Parrot, because it&apos...

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Alexey Soshin

Alexey Soshin is a software architect with 15 years of experience in the industry. He started exploring Kotlin when Kotlin was still in beta, and since then has been a big enthusiast of the language. He's a conference speaker, published writer, and the author of a video course titled Pragmatic System Design.
Read more about Alexey Soshin