Scaling End-to-End User Interface Tests
At Slack, Quality is a shared responsibility. The Quality Engineering team is focused on creating a culture of testing, increasing test coverage, and …
Prototyping at Slack
Over the years at Slack — usually during periods of high growth — teams have defaulted to working in a waterfall where an idea is proposed and researc…
A Day in the Life of a Frontend Foundations Engineer at Slack
6:28 am
First alarm rings. Snooze.
6:30 am
Second alarm rings. Snooze.
6:34 am
Final alarm rings and I know this is the last one, so I hop out of…
Happiness is… a freshly organized codebase
Starting From the Top
Imagine joining a new team at a new company and you finally get access to a codebase.
Slack iOS Xcode File Hierarchy 2017
Whe…
Development Environments at Slack
How Slack’s development environments have evolved over time.
A Day in the Life of a Mobile Product Engineer at Slack
6:45 am
My alarm is set for 6:45 but I often wake up before it goes off. I tend to wake up earlier during Vancouver’s long summer days, when the sun …
Hacklang at Slack: A Better PHP
How and why Slack migrated to Hack, the benefits it gave us, and things to consider for your own codebase.
A Day in the Life of a Backend Product Engineer at Slack
Prior to the COVID-19 outbreak and our current shelter in place orders in San Francisco.