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Apache HTTP server benchmarking tool (ab) is a nice tool to test performance on sites delivered by HTTP. If the site you're about to test is placed behind a...

...login, follow these steps to successfully use ab on it. Open the site to test in the browser of your choice. Do not login yet. Use developer tools to show...

...the actual expression is always converted to a regular expression. # For expected === actual foo('Test(s)', 'Test(s)') #=> true # For expected.match?(actual) foo('Test(s)', 'Test(s)') #=> false

...behavior, not give you a safe string in the end (see below). Example def test(input) input.gsub /(f)/ do puts $1 'b' end end >> test('foo') f => "boo"

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...A lot has changed since. Besides the helpers, it got its own RSpec acceptance testing DSL recently, essentially eating Steak’s functionality and turning it into a complete acceptance testing...

...callbacks for a particular form screen, but then the model becomes a pain in tests, where all those callbacks just get in the way. Or we have different forms for...

...the model itself stays slim and validations don't get in the way of tests, validations don't get in the way of tests meaning that developers need to be...

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This jasmine plugin helps with testing DOM manipulation in two ways: It gives you DOM-related matchers like toBeVisible() or toHaveCss(css) It gives you a function to load HTML...

...from that file, if there are any. That should only happen in development, since tests or production environments will fail when trying to compile their assets up front. class ApplicationController...

Working with a self-signed certificate is much easier, when the browser accepts it. Google Chrome Warnings from chrome might...

In CI test runs I noticed that string sorting order changed after switching from a debian-based PostgreSQL docker image to one that is based on Alpine Linux.

...the locale-provider icu which can also handle UTF-8 locales. I have not tested this approch. So either try this or switch back to a debian-based image (e.g...

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A capybara driver that uses WebKit via QtWebKit.

...nick-invision/retry to re-try a failing command, optionally with a timeout: --- ... jobs: test: ... steps: - name: Run tests uses: nick-invision/retry@v2 with: timeout_seconds: 30 max_attempts...

...54a28b1 o │ Support dalli 3.2.1 <=== we need this commit bd5188b o │ Fix flakey Memcache tests ... 923d91e M─│─┐ Merge branch '6-1-sec' into 6-1-stable 10a2c77 │ o─┘ Preparing for...

...to organize features in subdirectories, you won't have any problems when running the whole test-suite. Cucumber will automatically load and run features in subdirectories, too. However, running features...

...working on the project don't have to provide the option for every cucumber test run execution...

In Ruby, you can only write environment variables that subprocesses will see. For tests with a Rails application (i.e., that call rails or rake or other binstubbed commands), this...

...method may help you: # Use this method to wrap any system calls to the test application def prepare_environment(&block) Bundler.with_clean_env do # Spring leads to all kinds of...

yarn add coffeescript coffee-loader Define a CoffeeScript loader (e.g. in config/webpack/loaders/coffee.js) module.exports = { test: /\.coffee$/, use: [{ loader: 'coffee-loader' }] } Add the loader to the Webpacker environment (e.g. in config/webpack/environment.js...

...SOAP API, you may want to use Savon::SpecHelper to mock requests in your tests as described in their documentation. When sending a message body, the savon mock object requires...

...note: You could use VCR to record your SOAP talk. In my case my tests had to talk to the same service the staging servers talk to, so any recorded...

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...a nice way of processing parameter options, some utility classes and Cucumber steps for testing your CLI app...

# visit page.driver.last_request.env['HTTP_REFERER'] # old visit page.driver.request.env['HTTP_REFERER'] # new # or for javascript tests: page.execute_script('window.history.back()') end undefined method locate for #Capybara::Session (NoMethodError) Use page.find instead of...

...now wrapped by a html document skeleton. Use page.text instead. (e.g. when you are testing correct JSON which is in fact not wrapped by a html sceleton) An element can...

...How to make a terminal window title reflect the current path Too many parallel test processes may cause flaky tests Load rbenv on session create Load nvm on session create...

...user hovers over the button, or when the article is scrolled into view). 6. Test it! There is so much that can go wrong with the buttons or how the...

...share dialog popups interact with your layout. Always test with each social network. Consider using a fake profile for this so you don't annoy your real life friends...

In order to chain greps on log files that are opened via tail -f test.log you have to use the --line-buffered command line option for grep. Imagine you have...

...the following content in your log file. # content for log/test.log test foo bar test foo bar baz bla Now if you would like to grep for lines that contain foo...

...consolidated commit. Having as little commits as possible to restore later is key. Run tests and fix them, if necessary. Maybe tests were added that expect the removed functionality as...

Sometimes you need a file of some size (possibly for testing purposes). On Linux, you can use dd to create one. Let's say you want a 23 MB file...

...called test.file. You would then run this: dd if=/dev/zero of=test.file bs=1048576 count=23 The block size (bs) is set to 1 MB (1024^2 bytes) here, writing...