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Behavior-Driven Development

BDD is a logical step forward in the evolution of the practice of software development. This article explains the concept and its origins.

Marko Anastasov

The Testing Pyramid: How to Structure Your Test Suite

Explore different ways of organizing the test suite including testing pyramid, testing matrix and testing trophy.

Tomas Fernandez

A Deep Dive into Unit Testing

Testing is a significant part of software development, and unit tests are fundamental. Learn how unit testing can help you improve code quality and speed up development.

Do You Need to Test Everything?

Tests enforce requirements and provide feedback, telling us when something breaks. But are they always necessary?

Tomas Fernandez

Smoke Testing Keeps Your Delivery Pipeline Safe and Sound

Explore the origins of smoke testing and learn how to incorporate it into your continuous integration or continuous delivery pipelines.

The 6 Principles of Test Automation

Test automation allows developers to get continuous feedback and spot problems very early in the production cycle. Quick iteration results in improved design, better quality, and safer launches.

Tomas Fernandez

How to Introduce Testing in Teams and Companies

Learn how the introduction of testing practices in companies can improve product quality and production efficiency.

Ferdinando Santacroce

The Economics of TDD

TDD can help you accelerate development and reduce costs over a project’s lifecycle.

Tomas Fernandez

9 Ways To Make Slow Tests Faster

At Semaphore, we’ve seen our fair share of tests and have identified 9 ways to make your slow tests faster.

Tomas Fernandez

Introducing Self-Hosted Agents

With Semaphore's Self-Hosted Agents, you can build your own CI/CD platform behind the security of your company's firewall. Learn more and sign up for a private beta.

Getting Integration Testing Right

Integration testing might not be as popular as unit testing. But with the right tools and CI/CD environments, integration testing can become as straightforward as unit testing.

5-Step Strategy for Optimizing Slow Tests

Tests should help development, not block it. Optimize them to keep you development cycle fast and stay competitive.

Tomas Fernandez

What is a Flaky Test? How to Fix Flaky Tests?

Randomly failing tests are the hardest to debug. Here’s a system you can use to fix them and keep your test suite healthy.

Nebojša Stričević

Run Bazel Build on Semaphore

Semaphore provides out-of-the-box monorepo support. In this tutorial, we'll discuss how to set up and run Bazel builds on Semaphore.

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