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.
Category Software Engineering
Do You Need to Test Everything?
Tests enforce requirements and provide feedback, telling us when something breaks. But are they always necessary?
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.
How to Introduce Testing in Teams and CompaniesΒ
Learn how the introduction of testing practices in companies can improve product quality and production efficiency.
The Economics of TDD
TDD can help you accelerate development and reduce costs over a projectβs lifecycle.
9 Ways To Make Slow Tests Faster
At Semaphore, weβve seen our fair share of tests and have identified 9 ways to make your slow tests faster.
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.
What is a Flaky Test? How to Fix Flaky Tests?
Randomly failing tests are the hardest to debug. Hereβs a system you can use to fix them and keep your test suite healthy.
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.
Deploy Flutter (iOS) Apps to Testers using Firebase App Distribution with Semaphore
This article focuses on automating deployments for Flutter (iOS) apps using ad-hoc releases in App Distribution. Read it if youβre interested in implementing this for Android.
Feature Flags: A Gentle Introduction
If you can’t decide if testing in production is a foolish or a genius idea, this tutorial will definitely help.
Top 10 Semaphore Uncut Episodes in 2021
From monorepos to browser testing, we covered a variety of topics on our Semaphore Uncut episodes in 2021. Here’s a list of the top 10 podcast episodes favored by our listeners