How Finance Does iOS

How does the Yahoo! Finance iOS team work? Basic process and tools. Presented at Artsy on 8/31/2015

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1. How Finance Does iOS
3. These days... • real time quotes w/ streaming • manage watchlist • personalized news • portfolio tracking
4. Re-written from an older version starting Jan 2013 • ~12000 commits • ~6000 PRs • ~50 people have committed • ~70 Pods
5. Today • 5 iOS devs • 1 Engineer/Project/Product Mgr • ~1.5 (shared) designers • 14 releases this year • iOS 8+ (next release)
6. Basic flow • master is always shippable to Apple • develop is (almost) always shippable to Dogfood • feature branch off of develop
7. Code review • team does via PR • larger items done in person with team or architect • mentoring via PR (blocker vs feedback)
8. Private pod-spec • ~100 internal pods • ~50 more people have shared code in our app • Ads, Analytics, Accounts, Messaging, Side Menu, ... • SemVer is important in managing this • Cutting a major version requires larger review
9. Testing • Unit tests (Specta/Expecta) • Snapshots • UIAutomation Monkey testing • QA Team does manual regression testing
10. Chat is harder than expected • Yahoo Messenger • Slack • HipChat • IRC • iMessage • Skype
11. CI is harder than expected • Jenkins with other stuff • Swift was fun • Laptops are mostly faster than Mac Mini’s • Each build generates ~70MB of logs
12. Tools • Enterprise Github • JIRA • Sentry • Splunk • Sketch • InDesign • GoogleDrive • Paw • Charles Proxy • Seamless
13. Open Source • YMCache • YMPromptKit • cocoapods-blacklist
14. Great Resources • Usability Studies • Senior Architects • Dogfood users
15. 2 types of weekly office hours • Cross team in NYC • With Senior Architect in SNV • Special for goals (e.g. performance)
16. Weekly “What do you want to talk about?” Meeting • write descriptions on post-it notes • clarify for others if needed • each person has 2 votes • highest votes are discussed for 15-30 minutes each
17. Internal, organized learning • Android • OpenGL • React • Tech Associates • Stocks, Technical Analysis, Options, etc
18. Pro Tip