Basic Testing Introduction in Rails

#100 Oct 8, 2017

Using the Rails 5.1.X defaults, we have a look at what is configured and explore the different types of tests; using the provided MiniTest and Capybara.

• 13min
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Testing with RSpec

#101 Oct 15, 2017

Using RSpec, learn how to create tests for your application and view your coverage.

• 13min
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Minitest and Test Driven Development

#221 Dec 22, 2019

We continue from Episode 220 and add additional features and write tests for existing code. We look at introduced bugs and how test driven development can help to not only fix the bugs, but strengthen our test suite.

• 23min
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Speeding Up Tests

#104 Nov 5, 2017

Slow tests can slow down your development process. Using parallel_tests, you can speed up your test suite by multiple threads and running the tests in groups.

• 4min
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Sample Data with Factory Bot and Faker

#103 Oct 29, 2017

Factory Bot is a fixtures replacement which can generate the needed records directly in the tests. Faker can be used to create fake data for these records.

• 8min
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Feature Testing with Capybara

#102 Oct 22, 2017

Create Acceptance Tests or Feature Tests to extend your automated tests with browser testing. It can help tests some areas that cannot be reached with other types of tests.

• 14min
• 28
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System Tests

#417 Sep 3, 2023

In this episode, we look at adding system tests in our application to test our Stimulus Controllers. We'll also look at how to DRY up some of the tests and how to run them in a headless environment.

• 19min
• 5
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Load Testing with JMeter

#184 Apr 21, 2019

Load Testing is an important aspect of due diligence when hosting a production application. It can also help uncover infrastructure requirements and server costs.

• 16min
• 6
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Testing View Components

#293 Apr 25, 2021

View Components allow testing the rendered views much easier.

• 9min
• 7
• 1

Testing Stripe Payments

#261 Sep 27, 2020

Continuing from the previous episode, we add testing to the Stripe Payments without adding any additional dependencies.

• 17min
• 6
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