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 […]
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, […]
The Diamond Kata is a simple exercise that Seb Rose described in a blog post on recycling tests in TDD. Seb describes the Diamond Kata as: Given a letter, print […]
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 […]
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 […]
You can now choose to be notified only after failed builds and deploys, reducing noise in your channels, rooms, and inboxes when continuous delivery…
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 […]
Introduction If you are even slightly familiar with configuration management, you have probably heard of Ansible before. In short, Ansible is a configuration management tool that allows you to manage […]
Introduction Shoulda Matchers provides Test::Unit and RSpec-compatible one-liners that test common Rails functionality. It helps you write tests that would otherwise be much longer, more complex, and error-prone. Using shoulda-matchers […]
Introduction For many developers BDD is a complicated subject, and getting started with it the right way often does not come easy – especially when you need to implement it […]
In May we had the pleasure of releasing official continuous integration and deployment support for Elixir projects on Semaphore. We wanted to get to know the Elixir community better, so […]
Introduction In this article, we’re going to look at Cucumber as a tool for writing your customer acceptance tests. More specifically, we’re going to look at how a Cucumber acceptance […]
Introduction Test code needs to be both run by computers and read by humans. It therefore needs to be well-factored and use the domain language. At the end of this […]
Introduction In this tutorial, we will walk through the process of setting up a local environment for Clojure development using the Ansible configuration management tool. Ansible and Clojure are a […]
Introduction An essential property of an automated test and the entire test suite is its determinism. This means that a test should always have the same result when the tested […]