LixCon 2026

To sleep in a sea of Tests | Refactoring a testing "framework" from hell
2026-04-17 , Amphitheater Dussane

Taking a look at the functional test suite, pointing out its concepts and flaws to then take a look at its successor functional2


Many curses and screams of frustration has the functional test suite brought forth in many - if not all - lix developers. Hence people wanted a successor.
In this session, we will talk about all the pain, impurities and falkeyness of the functional suite, look at the features and non-features of functional2, and the pain of migrating tests.

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Code owner of the functional2 test suite