Testing tools, techniques, and best practices.
Category: Testing
Communicative Assertion
Tests can be communicative from multiple angles. How well does your assertion state intent when we read the code? On failure, does your message point us in the right direction?
Clarify Test Comparison
A test is only helpful if you can understand its failures. In today's episode, I'll show you one of my favorite techniques for making test output readable and intent-revealing.
Performance Testing – Scaling with Inputs
When we feed large quantities of data to our algorithms, we start having to worry about their performance scaling characteristics. Join guest chef Piotr Murach and learn how characterize algorithms …
Performance Testing – Staying Fast
Join guest chef Piotr Murach to learn how algorithm performance can be analyzed and characterized using "Big-O" notation. Then, be amazed at his tools for programmatically verifying our algorithmic performance!
Episode #544
Unit tests? Integration tests? Where will you get the most bang for the buck from the time you spend testing your code? Join guest chef Chelsea Troy to learn how …
Episode #539
Mutation testing isn't just for better tests. In this screencast with Daniel Gollahon, you'll see how the mutant gem can help you write cleaner, safer Ruby code.
Episode #538
Learn how mutation testing can teach you to write better tests, with guest chef Daniel Gollahon.
Episode #533
Get the lowdown on how to use RSpec to write modern Rails System Tests, from guest chef Sam Phippen.
Episode #522: Cucumber Expressions with Matt Wynne
Is sharing executable specification documents between developers and business domain experts a myth? Far from it! In this episode, guest chef Matt Wynne of the Cucumber project shows how to …
Episode #516: TDD is easy! – with Michal Taszycki
Have you ever heard someone say that TDD is just "too hard" to get started with on some platform? Watch Michal Taszycki put this fear to bed once and for …