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  1. 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
  2. Acceptance Tests with Subdomains

    How to use subdomains in your feature specs.

    Damian Galarza
    October 10, 2016
    • Ruby
    • Testing
    • Capybara
  3. 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
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    • AccessLint
  4. 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
  5. 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
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  6. ExMachina Hits 1.0 - More Flexible, More Useful and Support for Ecto 2.0

    ExMachina allows developers to create and manipulate test data in Elixir.

    Paul Smith
    July 11, 2016
    • Elixir
    • Testing
    • Web
  7. Announcing fake_stripe

    A fake to test your Stripe code without hitting Stripe’s servers.

    Melanie Gilman
    May 24, 2016
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    • Rails
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  8. My issues with Let

    let can lead to bloat. Be careful.

    Jason Draper
    May 20, 2016
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  9. Testing Elixir Plugs

    Unit-test your Elixir Plugs with a few quick tips.

    Josh Clayton
    May 11, 2016
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    • Elixir
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  10. Disabling Caching in Tests

    You may not get the results you expected.

    Matt Sumner
    May 6, 2016
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    • Rails
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