Introduction Starting with a new technology can be difficult. It usually takes some time to understand the components and the way they work together. In this tutorial, we’re going to create an API, using Test Driven Development (TDD) to guide us through its implementation. You’ll learn how the feedback provided by our test helps save […]
AWS Lambda is a service from the Amazon Web Services family which runs your code based on various events. When you create a Lambda function and deploy your code to it, AWS Lambda takes care of provisioning and managing servers that run your code. This tutorial will show you how to develop a Node.js Lambda […]
AWS Lambda is an AWS service that runs your code in response to events or HTTP requests. Lambda works through functions, which are basically microservices written in Java, Python or Node.js. When you create a Lambda function and deploy your code to it, AWS Lambda takes care of provisioning and managing the backend infrastructure. To […]
We’ve been publishing Ruby version reports in commercial projects for three years now, and given recent events in Node community
Introduction With AWS Elastic Beanstalk, you can quickly deploy and manage applications in the AWS cloud without having to worry about the infrastructure that supports those applications. AWS Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles all the details of application version history, capacity provisioning, load balancing, scaling, and application health monitoring. This tutorial explains how to set up […]
Introduction Testing code with Ajax, networking, timeouts, databases, or other dependencies can be difficult. For example, if you use Ajax or networking, you need to have a server, which responds to your requests. With databases, you need to have a testing database set up with data for your tests. All of this means that writing […]
Continuing our modest tradition of publishing an annual report on Ruby versions used for private projects on Semaphore, we’re presenting you with the results for 2015.
What is Minitest? Minitest is a testing tool for Ruby that provides a complete suite of testing facilities. It also supports behaviour-driven development, mocking and benchmarking. With the release of Ruby 1.9, it was added to Ruby’s standard library, which increased its popularity. Even though at first it gives off the impression of a very […]
Test Driving an Ember Application Welcome back! If this is the first tutorial on Ember.js you are reading on Semaphore Community, it’s recommended that you first read Part 1, where we laid the groundwork with Ember and created some client-side models. In this tutorial, we’re taking a little break from Ember and looking at building […]
Introduction This tutorial will guide you through installing behave_django and FactoryBoy to set up a BDD stack for a Django application. For this purpose, we will create a simple login form as a base for developing BDD tests. BDD puts the user at the center of your tests. It is an increasingly popular method that […]
Introduction Testing is probably one of the most popular topics in the Rails community today. This is because we are yet to get to the point where testing has the same wow factor like the other parts of Rails. The problem with testing and writing Rails code is that we can’t quite get the separation […]
This time we had the pleasure of talking with Pedro Pereira Santos, team leader at Rupeal, a Portuguese company that has two completely bootstraped products behind them.
Introduction Behaviour-driven development allows you to describe how your application should behave, and drive the development of features by adding new tests and making them pass. By clearly describing how your application behaves in different scenarios, you can be confident that the product delivered at the end meets the requirements you set out to deliver. […]
Introduction Manual testing is usually slow, tedious and error-prone, which is why end-to-end testing is important — we need a way to automate testing across different browsers and platforms. In this tutorial, we will learn how to set up end-to-end testing with Selenium and write a simple test checking if the page title of our […]
Introduction With AWS Elastic Beanstalk, you can quickly deploy and manage applications in the AWS cloud without having to worry about the infrastructure that supports those applications. AWS Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles all the details of capacity provisioning, load balancing, scaling, and application health monitoring. This article will explain how to set up continuous deployment […]
