Internbot Chronicles #4: CI & Test Metrics — GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING INTO OTHER GIANT ROBOTS

We recently decided our CI server needed an overhaul. I really enjoyed Integrity as a build server, but after trying out Hudson it’s hard to say I want to go back. Hudson has several huge advantages.

ShamRack mounts a Rack app locally, just for your tests. It goes one further: it “mounts” it using Net::HTTP such that requests to the Rack app never hit any network.

We didn’t want to leave front-end developers in the dark when their Javascript throws errors, so we’ve added a Hoptoad notifier for Javascript!

For my computer science bachelor's thesis I programmed and evaluated a CLI Test Case Prioritization (TCP) tool for makandra. It has been written as a Ruby Gem and was tested and evaluated against one Ruby on Rails project....

An end-to-end test (E2E test) is a script that remote-controls a web browser with tools like Selenium WebDriver. This card shows basic techniques for fixing a flaky E2E test suite that sometimes passes and sometimes fails.

Although many examples ...

Cerberus is a lightweight and easy-to-use Continuous Builder software for Ruby. It could be run periodically from a scheduler and check if application tests are broken. In case of failed tests Cerberus sends notification to developers.

Test-Driven Development (TDD) in its most dogmatic form (red-green-refactor in micro-iterations) can be tedious. It does not have to be this way! This guide shows a pragmatic approach with integration and unit tests, that works in practice and imp...

Download buttons can be difficult to test, especially with Selenium. Depending on browser, user settings and response headers, one of three things can happen:

• The browser shows a "Save as..." dialog. Since it is a modal dialog, we can no longer...