Grease your Suite: Tips and Tricks for Faster Testing
Published July 15th, 2010 Under Open Source Tools, Software Testing | Leave a Comment
Continuous integration is a great way to keep your code base organized and well tested. But when a test suite takes so long to run that developers stop running it before every commit, they lose their constant feedback loop and quality drops. In this talk we’ll explore methods of speeding up the test suite so that developers can be confident about the code they’ve written before they share it with the team. We’ll start with quick cheap fixes, like optimizing your operating system, that can yield drastic results (like cutting test time in half!) with no loss of functionality. We’ll also cover methods of writing tests that reduce their run time with gems like fast_context for shoulda. At then end, we’ll move to more involved methods of multi-tasking your test suite to run on all the cores in your workstation and even to setting up a distributed testing cloud to run all your tests in parallel. Every tactic will be backed up with hard benchmarks from real production code. We’ll show the evolution of a test suite from its full run time of 13 minutes down to a number you won’t believe.
Video Producer: Gotham Ruby Conference
Learning TDD through Test-first Teaching
Published July 5th, 2010 Under Open Source Tools, Software Testing | Leave a Comment
How to get started with TDD? Test-First Teaching is an innovative teaching approach that is gaining widespread adoption. Sarah Allen talks about how she teaches Ruby and Rails through a test-first approach. She demonstrates test-first teaching and then discuss how to turn the corner from simply making tests pass to how to use a test-first approach to software design.
Video Producer: East Bay Ruby Meetup Group
Code Metrics with Metric Fu
Published May 17th, 2010 Under Open Source Tools, Software Testing | Leave a Comment
Maintainability of your code can be measured in many different ways. Jake Scruggs has combined several of the tools that measure you code into one Ruby Gem: metric_fu.
Rails in the Large: How Agility Allows Us to Build One Of the World’s Biggest Rails Apps
Published May 12th, 2010 Under Coding, Open Source Tools | Leave a Comment
Neal Ford shows what ThoughtWorks learned from scaling Rails development: infrastructure, testing, messaging, optimization, performance.
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/ford-large-rails
Using Rake to Build, Run Unit Tests and Create Documentation
Published March 29th, 2010 Under Open Source Tools, Software Testing | Leave a Comment
This screencast demonstrates how to use Rake to build .NET solution, run unit tests and build documentation. Rake with Ruby is a perfect combination which will eliminate Nant and MSBuild hell.
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