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Mocking and faking external dependencies in elixir tests

Explore a combination of mocking, faking, and dependency injection to focus on the code being tested.
Wil Hall
September 23, 2019
- Testing
- Elixir
TDDing in React with Apollo and TypeScript

Pointers for doing TDD with React using Apollo and TypeScript.
Alejandro Dustet
June 25, 2019
- Testing
- TDD
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- GraphQL
- Apollo
- React
- Web
Deprecating static attributes in factory_bot 4.11

Static attributes have been the source of much confusion over the years. Their deprecation will come with a rubocop-rspec Cop to automatically replace with dynamic attributes.
Daniel Colson
August 16, 2018
- Factory Bot
- Open Source
- Testing
- Ruby
Why Factories?

Understanding why we use factories helps us write faster, more readable tests.
Joël Quenneville
January 12, 2018
- Ruby
- Web
- Testing
factory_bot

factory_girl is becoming factory_bot.
Avielle Wolfe and Josh Clayton
October 24, 2017
- News
- Web
- Rails
- Testing
- RSpec
- Ruby
- Factory Girl
- Factory Bot
Debugging Why Your Specs Have Slowed Down

Your test suite used to be lightning fast but now it’s starting to feel a bit sluggish. Before adding CI parallelization, let’s see if there’s any clutter to remove.
Mike Wenger
September 22, 2017
- Testing
- Ruby
- Rails
- Factory Girl
- Web
- Factory Bot
Headless Capybara Feature Specs with Chrome

We’re experimenting with running feature specs using Chrome’s new headless mode. How do we set it up, and how does it compare to Capybara-WebKit?
Derek Prior
June 16, 2017
- Rails
- Testing
- Web
Testing Third Party Interactions

How to test integrations with a third-party API.
Joël Quenneville
March 15, 2017
- Web
- Ruby
- Testing
ExMachina 2.0 - Cast Away

ExMachina 2.0 brings new features and functions for easier testing.
Josh Steiner
March 13, 2017
- Elixir
- Testing
- Web
Chain RSpec Matchers for Improved Test Readability

Improve test readability by leveraging RSpec’s matcher composition to make multiple assertions with a single matcher.
Josh Clayton
March 9, 2017
- Web
- RSpec
- Ruby
- Rails
- Testing
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