"Agility & Robustness: Clojure spec" by Stuart Halloway

Why it was recommended

He offers a chart that shows the strengths and weaknesses of strict typing versus unit tests versus the run-time checks offered by Spec. It's worth a look.

Recommendationsusan_hall · Original2016-11

What it covers

Stuart Halloway shows how Clojure's spec library lets you build programs that are both agile and robust. He covers declarative, predicate-based specification layered on. It is for someone who already knows the basic terms and wants the next step.

Video details

Channel

Strange Loop Conference

Length

40 min

Year

2016

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