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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
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  4. Testing Third Party Interactions

    How to test integrations with a third-party API.

    Joël Quenneville
    March 15, 2017
    • Web
    • Ruby
    • Testing
  5. ExMachina 2.0 - Cast Away

    ExMachina 2.0 brings new features and functions for easier testing.

    Josh Steiner
    March 13, 2017
    • Elixir
    • Testing
    • Web
  6. 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
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  7. Advice for our user

    You signed up for a usability test…but what the heck is a usability test?

    Jaclyn Perrone
    December 28, 2016
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  8. Acceptance Tests with Subdomains

    How to use subdomains in your feature specs.

    Damian Galarza
    October 10, 2016
    • Ruby
    • Testing
    • Capybara
  9. 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
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  10. 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
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