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Kim Pepper

Co-Founder & Tech Director

Location
Sydney
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Kim brings three decades of experience to his work, with roots in some of Australia’s earliest web development firms. After graduating with a double major in Computer Science and Psychology, he cut his teeth in Australia’s first wave of web companies before taking on a technical leadership role with global firm Oven Digital in the late 1990s. Following the dot-com crash, Kim pivoted to serious back-end development - building Java based hospital management systems with iSoft and a contextual advertising startup.

As a co-founder of PreviousNext, Kim leads the development team as Technical Director. His deep expertise in building mission-critical platforms on highly scalable architecture has been central to PreviousNext’s success in providing Drupal services to the government sector and other large customers.

My blog posts

Automated Drupal Testing with Github Pull Requests

We are passionate about code quality. We want to make sure our code is well tested and confirms to standards at all times. If there is a bug, we want to know as soon as possible, so we can fix it and keep our code stable, well tested and bug free, even in early development versions.

Typical workflows use a git topic branch for development of each feature, and require code to be merged into a development branch before automated tests are run. The problem with this approach is it tests code after it has been reviewed and merged.

Using Jenkins for automated testing of Github pull requests, we can get one step closer to code quality nirvana.

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