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Samantha Coyle
Samantha Coyle
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Samantha Coyle

Samantha Coyle, a Software Engineer at Diagrid, specializes in Go for cloud-native developer tooling, abstracting application development challenges. Committed to Open Source, she contributes to projects like Dapr and Testcontainers. She boasts a rich history in retail computer vision solutions and successfully stabilized industrial edge use cases with testing and diverse deployments for biopharma data pipelines. Her expertise extends to being CKAD certified and reviewing Go textbooks. She is passionate about empowering early-career, diverse professionals. Samantha is in a family of gophers, and enjoys GopherCon with her brother and identical twin sister. She's a seasoned speaker, having presented at various conferences, including GopherCon.
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Testing is a fundamental aspect of software development that ensures the reliability, correctness, and stability of applications. In Go, testing plays a crucial role in maintaining the robustness of software systems.

As I mentioned previously, testing is a crucial part of the SDLC that encompasses various phases, from requirements gathering to deployment. Quality assurance begins with the implementation of effective testing strategies. Robust testing not only identifies and rectifies bugs and errors in code but also promotes maintainability and scalability. Consider a scenario where a critical financial application lacks comprehensive testing. An innocuous code change might inadvertently introduce a bug that goes unnoticed until the application fails catastrophically. Testing, therefore, acts as a safety net, catching potential issues early in the development life cycle. If a team is impacted by a bug rolling out into their different environments, developers should...

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Samantha Coyle

Samantha Coyle, a Software Engineer at Diagrid, specializes in Go for cloud-native developer tooling, abstracting application development challenges. Committed to Open Source, she contributes to projects like Dapr and Testcontainers. She boasts a rich history in retail computer vision solutions and successfully stabilized industrial edge use cases with testing and diverse deployments for biopharma data pipelines. Her expertise extends to being CKAD certified and reviewing Go textbooks. She is passionate about empowering early-career, diverse professionals. Samantha is in a family of gophers, and enjoys GopherCon with her brother and identical twin sister. She's a seasoned speaker, having presented at various conferences, including GopherCon.
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