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  1. Write Reliable, Asynchronous Integration Tests With Capybara

    We’ve come to rely on integration tests as part of a balanced testing...

    Joe Ferris
    September 10, 2014
    • Web
    • Rails
    • JavaScript
    • Testing
  2. Acceptance Tests at a Single Level of Abstraction

    Each acceptance test tells a story: a logical progression through a task...

    Josh Clayton
    September 2, 2014
    • Web
    • Ruby
    • Rails
    • Testing
  3. Speed Up Tests by Selectively Avoiding Factory Bot

    Learn one simple way to speed up your tests with the factory_bot gem!

    Josh Clayton
    August 14, 2014
    • Web
    • Rails
    • Testing
    • RSpec
    • Factory Girl
    • Factory Bot
  4. Segment.io and Ruby

    Use Segment.io’s Ruby library to track usage patterns within a Rails application.

    Josh Clayton
    July 30, 2014
    • Web
    • Rails
    • Testing
    • Analytics
  5. Testing from the Outside-In

    A few months ago my colleague Josh Steiner wrote a comprehensive post on How...

    Joël Quenneville
    June 9, 2014
    • Web
    • Testing
  6. Refactoring with an Apprentice

    Walk through a refactoring of Ruby on Rails test code and observe lessons in Rails idioms, setting up only necessary test data, and extracting methods.

    Eric Allen
    May 19, 2014
    • Web
    • Good Code
    • Testing
    • Apprenticeship
  7. Document Explicit Dependencies Through Tests

    Split your spec_helper.rb file into a minimal spec_helper.rb file and a rails_helper.rb file to load only the necessary dependencies in a spec. This is now the default in Rails.

    Greg Lazarev
    May 6, 2014
    • Web
    • Rails
    • Testing
  8. Test Driving iOS - A Primer

    Using Specta, Expecta, and OCMock, we’ll take a look at how we can test-drive our iOS apps in Objective-C.

    Gordon Fontenot
    April 16, 2014
    • iOS
    • Testing
  9. Shoulda Matchers 2.6.0

    Announcing the latest version of Shoulda Matchers, now ready for Rails 4.1.

    Elliot Winkler
    April 14, 2014
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    • Ruby
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    • Testing
    • Shoulda
  10. Back to Basics: Writing Unit Tests First

    Step-by-step instructions for learning Test-Driven Development (TDD) in Ruby. There’s nothing to fear! It’s fun.

    Britt Ballard
    April 7, 2014
    • Web
    • Back To Basics
    • Ruby
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