Stop trying to be a computer; you are a human! You know what humans are good at? Storytelling. As a software tester or developer, you should stop trying to write tests just to get a green test suite, and start telling rich, descriptive stories. Once you have a good story, …
Performing software testing all the f***ing time is one of the values of the Ruby community. But how many of us test in production in addition to running our test suites as part of CI? This talk will discuss a variety of approaches to testing in prod including canaries, blue-green …
Although the Ruby community has embraced TDD like no other community ever has, we have always looked at mock objects with disdain, and perhaps even a little hatred. I’ve heard conference speakers call them “Wastes of time”, “Scams”, and even “Testing Heresies”. Why would anyone have ever developed these pieces …
Minitest is a testing library of just 1,500 lines of Ruby code. By comparison, Rspec clocks in at nearly 15,000! Why is Minitest so small? I’d like to investigate by doing a guided read of Minitest’s source code.
Google Analytics, Like Buttons, Twitter Widgets, Olark chat boxes; all examples of third party JavaScript elements that are embedded by users in their websites. Testing third party code once embedded in a page, is often difficult and cumbersome. Verifying those elements are working properly (or even more basically, are not …
Time and time again, skilled developers with good intentions set out into the green field of their new Rails app. Alas, as days turn to weeks, weeks to months and months to years, they find themselves with an ever increasing maintenance burden. Adding new features in a well-designed way starts …
