Volkswagen – detects when your tests are run in a CI server, and makes them pass

Hi, co-creator of volkswagen here. Just some fun trivia about the project, which Kenneth and I obviously made as a joke years back when Volkswagen got caught cheating: The Node module actually works. If you use it, it will make all your tests pass. When writing the code, I put the logic for detecting if code is being run on a CI server into a separate node module called is-ci[1] (which the volkswagen module then depends on). That module (later…

In case anyone is interested in what Volkswagen did exactly in "Dieselgate", I can recommend this talk at the Chaos Communication Congress 2015, that does a technical deep dive: https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7331-the_exhaust_emissions_scand... The talk includes some pretty impressive reverse engineering.

The joke was done a few days ago (I have no idea if this was the first either but its the first I saw) https://github.com/hmlb/phpunit-vw (To those that don't get the joke, Volkswagon just got popped for cheating their emissions tests by detecting when they were in a test vs real world environment)

You sir have taken naming and shaming to a whole new level. And I for one, applaud you. The VW scandal [1] happened only very recently, and it was very serious, and people deserve a reminder of it (and should avoid VW products). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal