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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
Shoulda Matchers 2.6.0

Announcing the latest version of Shoulda Matchers, now ready for Rails 4.1.
Elliot Winkler
April 14, 2014
- News
- Web
- Ruby
- Open Source
- Testing
- Shoulda
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
- Rails
- Testing
Automatically Wait for AJAX with Capybara

How to use Capybara’s wait_for_ajax helper.
Gabe Berke-Williams
February 4, 2014
- Web
- Rails
- Testing
How we test Rails applications

We use RSpec feature and specs heavily, controller and view specs more judiciously, FactoryBot for test data, JavaScript integration specs with Poltergeist or Capybara Webkit, like test doubles and test spies but not test mocks, and we stub external requests with Webmock.
Josh Steiner
January 14, 2014
- Web
- Rails
- Testing
Capybara Webkit 1.1.0: Screenshots and Better ClickFailed Debugging

Capybara Webkit 1.1.0 has been released and it contains some great new...
Joe Ferris
December 12, 2013
- News
- Web
- Testing
- Capybara Webkit
Don't Stub the System Under Test

xUnit Test Patterns defines the System Under Test (SUT) as: whatever class,...
Joe Ferris
November 22, 2013
- Web
- Ruby
- Testing
Faking Remote Services with Rack::Test

Using Rack middleware, we can reroute Rack::Test requests to fake remote...
Joe Ferris
November 16, 2013
- Web
- Testing
- Ruby
FactoryBot for Seed Data?

Occasionally, somebody recommends or asks about using FactoryBot to generate...
Josh Clayton
November 13, 2013
- Web
- Ruby
- Testing
- Factory Girl
- Factory Bot
Better Tests Through Internationalization

Internationalization (i18n) is the process of adapting computer software to...
Derek Prior
October 26, 2013
- Web
- Rails
- Testing
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