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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
Advice for our user

You signed up for a usability test…but what the heck is a usability test?
Jaclyn Perrone
December 28, 2016
- Design
- User Research
- Usability
- Testing
- Interviews
Acceptance Tests with Subdomains

How to use subdomains in your feature specs.
Damian Galarza
October 10, 2016
- Ruby
- Testing
- Capybara
Introducing AccessLint CI - Automated Web Accessibility Testing

AccessLint runs accessibility tests in your CI suite and alerts you of WCAG 2.0 and Section 508 violations, before you release to production.
Cameron Cundiff
September 1, 2016
- Accessibility
- News
- Testing
- AccessLint
Building and testing a Phoenix JSON API

Learn how to build a blazing fast Phoenix API. Updated for Phoenix 1.2.
Paul Smith
August 2, 2016
- Elixir
- Testing
- Phoenix
Fundamentals of Test-Driven Development, Now on Upcase

Learn how to use Test-Driven Development to write better software in our newest Upcase trail.
Chris Toomey and Geoff Harcourt
July 19, 2016
- News
- Testing
- Ruby
- Upcase
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