Category Software Engineering

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Introduction Behavior testing simply means that we should test how an application behaves in certain situations. Often the behavior is given to us developers by our customers. They describe the functionality of an application, and we write code to meet their specifications. Behavioral tests are a tool to formalize their requirements into tests. This leads […]

Introduction In a previous article, we wrote about testing Ansible roles directly against Semaphore. This is great when you are targeting the same operating system as your continuous integration server, but what to do if you you need to target other operating systems as well? This is where Docker comes into play. Docker allows you […]

Introduction Being a developer, you probably own a lot of computer books. In this post, we’ll get started by building an application to store our books. We’ll create a new application using Ember.js CLI and use TDD to fully test our application. We’re going to be building a simplified version of the application DevBookcase. While […]

Introduction You have to eat your vegetables to grow and become stronger, ‘cause one day you’ll have to program in Scala – moms always say. We don’t pay too much attention to what they’re saying until we have to face the challenge. When you have no background in Java, programming in Scala can be easier. […]

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Introduction While unit tests usually make up the core of an application’s tests, integration tests are often just as important. An integration test is named as such because it integrates with some other piece of technology. In this tutorial, you will learn how to integrate a Play Framework web application with an HTTP server to […]