It’s our pleasure to announce that, as of today, Semaphore officially supports continuous integration and deployment of Elixir applications. Elixir: Functional programming for everyone Elixir was born out of the need for better concurency and higher productivity in the rock solid Erlang virtual machine called BEAM. Deriving from the fact that it compiles to Erlang […]
The upcoming platform update is scheduled for May 19th, 2015. Bundler gets an update with version 1.9.7.Cassandra is now on version 2.1.5.
The upcoming platform update is scheduled for April 21st.
Bundler gets an update with version 1.9.3 incorporating the new Molinillo dependency resolver and the performance improvements from version 1.8.
Calling all developers who write! These tutorials will be featured on Semaphore community site and we will credit the author of the content.
We’re happy to announce that as of today, Semaphore officially supports continuous integration and deployment of Scala applications.
Introduction Brakeman is a tool that scans a Ruby on Rails application for common vulnerabilities. It’s a static code analyzer that can help you find security problems before you release the application. Since you can introduce a vulnerability at any stage of you development process, it’s obvious that Brakeman should scan your application as often […]
The Agile movement brought many fresh ideas which enriched the world of software development and changed way how we look to it. This philosophy left marks on how we look our infrastructure too. By treating the infrastructure equally important as other parts of the project, there was a need for making sure that infrastructure is […]
Introduction Clojure is shipped with clojure.test โ a library with basic features for writing tests. However, there are a few alternatives that aim to make writing tests more pleasant or more suitable for BDD. Expectations by Jay Fields is one of them, described as “a minimalist’s unit testing framework” with the slogan “adding signal, removing […]
Selenium is a commonly used set of tools for automating browsers. It allows you to drive a browser interaction with a web page by writing code. It’s most often used to write browser-based tests for web applications. Tests can be executed in a development environment or even on a real application as part of a […]
Clojure standard library includes a general unit testing library clojure.test. There are several other libraries created for a specific purpose in mind. One of them is Kerodon, inspired by Ruby’s Capybara. Kerodon helps you test Ring-based web applications by simulating how a user would interact with your app. The goal of Kerodon is to provide […]
Introduction This tutorial guides you through generating a new Rails 4 application with RSpec and Cucumber as testing tools. If you’d like to learn how to set up a BDD stack on a Rails 5 application, this tutorial is the best next read for you. RSpec is a testing tool often used for writing unit […]
We are continuing an introduction to RSpec, a testing tool for Ruby. After covering the very basics in the first part of this series, we will now explore other important and frequently used features of RSpec: use of subject, let helper method, before hooks and exception handling. Along the way we will encounter some more […]
NPM is a Node.js package manager that comes bundled with the installation of Node.js. It keeps track of all dependencies for your Node.js projects and gives you full control over managing them. NPM makes is easy to reuse thousands of existing open source packages that solve a multitude of common problems, as well as share […]
Mocking is a technique in test-driven development (TDD) that involves using fake dependent objects or methods in order to write a test. There are a couple of reasons why you may decide to use mock objects: As a replacement for objects that don’t exist yet. When you are working with objects which return non-deterministic values […]
Software testing is slowly becomming second nature for many developers. Knowing that your changes aren’t breaking any existing feature gives a huge confidence boost when deploying. The PHP community isn’t the first to adopt the methologies of TDD (Test-Driven Development) but it’s catching up quickly with the rest. The testing community is growing rapidly and […]