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Building Better Test Suites
Test suites are important tools to help ensure the correctness of your application, but the suites need to be architected, designed, and maintained to ensure the test suite itself doesn’t rot and become a burden. This post covers some high level concepts and architecture decisions that keep test suites maintainable.
Guard is Your Friend
Test-driven development can be a little slow going, jumping between your code and your console, and targeting tests by line is prone to error. Use these tools and techniques to streamline your TDD.
Testing an Uploaded File in Rspec
Sometime you need to test how your code handles an uploaded file, but you don’t want to upload it in your test. Luckily, there’s an easy way to handle this.
Solutions to Potential Upgrade Problems in Rails 5
The Rails 5 upgrade has a few changes that may cause confusion. We look at how to get around the disabling of autoloading and look at the new deprecation warnings.
Keep Your Certificates Current Using Your Test Suite
How can our test suite tell us when a certificate expires? We’ll show you.
Fixing Intermittent Failing Tests
Some tricks to help you fix tests that sometimes fail.
Mocking HTML5 API's Using PhantomJS Extensions
Recently one of our projects called for using the browser’s Geolocation API. We were excited about this project. However, we had an immediate concern about how to test a feature that interacts with one of the browser’s built in APIs.
Language Matters
Last week the Ruby and Rails twitterverse had an eruption of debate on the choice of testing frameworks. My thoughts come down to this: language matters.
