testing

Last week, my team at Shopify released a new tool called Roast, a convention-oriented framework for creating structured AI workflows. Our vision is to enable A.I. agents to solv...

I’ve previously written about the OpenSearch OpenAPI Specification and how it can be used to fix bugs in the OpenSearch documentation.

I’ve previously written about the OpenSearch OpenAPI Specification.

I recently encountered a unit test that looked like this.

MongoDB SERVER-24384 bit me.

There are two ways to test delayed jobs under RSpec.

Volkswagen did a good job pioneering TDD. There’s now broad language and framework support.

Introducing email-example-spec, integration testing for your ActionMailer e-mails.

My first CocoaPod described in this post sparked a discussion with the CocoaPods team. There are a few things I didn’t like about the project organization.

Let’s mock a UIAlertView with OCMock. Here’s a simple alert:

I’ve written my share of RSpec tests that look for specific meta tags in a web page under Capybara. It would be nice to be able to spell the following.

The first Capybara integration test always tends to timeout when compiling assets on-demand. It’s just damn too slow. Precompile your assets before the test is run.

I gave a talk last week at AppNexus on building and scaling a test-driven culture.

There are two kinds of developers: those who use should in RSpec examples and those who use present tense.

Slides from my talk from #AgileDC 2012 here.

I love reflection, especially the Ruby kind. JavaScript reflection, though, can exhibit interesting runtime behavior.

I just published a new gem: rspec-rerun. It’s a packaged solution to rerunning failed RSpec tests. See README for details.

https://dblock.github.io/msiext/

I’ve released ResourceLib 1.3.

I am not a patient person. But years of software practice have taught me how to take my time while coding or how to, otherwise, remove time from the equation.

You should take a serious look at your application and write some tests, first thing Monday.

Expanding from my previous post on a Grape API mounted on RACK.

We use the Analytical gem to include various thirdparty Javascript in our Rails application. Our test environment was configured with dummy values in config/analytical.yml.

I posted this to a Ruby forum a while ago.

I love fabricators. We use the awesome fabrication gem that lets you do some pretty neat things in Rails specs.

A recent post “Rails is Not Your Application” caught my attention. It was fundamentally right, but the suggested implementation was misguided.

I used to attribute this error to little green elves inside of Capybara, Selenium or Firefox. But, as usual, things turn out to have a much more reasonable explanation.

Ran into a series of weird bugs with IE9. Turned out that a lot of our API requests were cached on the client. I am not sure whether this is some clever plot to make things work...

I’ve been fighting a trivial RoR controller test failure on a new build machine. The spec is rather trivial.

Inspired by this post on RSpec best practices and updated for RSpec2.

I am having a weird problem with Capybara and Selenium (Firefox) selecting items in a dropdown.

We made some progress with modularizing our Grape API in the last post. But we only had one version and declared Api_v1 as our main API entry. Unless you’re Netflix and need an ...

We’ve been trying to fix an issue with our continuous integration where Capybara tests were failing, but the CI process reported success. Rather annoying for CI!

This one took a while and required extensive help from a rocket scientist. While running RSpec I got this.

I ran into the infamous “this installation is forbidden by system policy” error message this morning while trying to fix the MsiExt build on a new Windows 2003 64-bit build mach...

One of our servers was upgraded to VMWare ESXi 4.1.0 and automation that uses RemoteInstall (and VMWareTasks) broke. The first part was easy, we needed to download and install t...

One of my projects, RemoteInstall, was mentioned in ThisWeekInTest.tv, episode 2. It’s a recorded discussion between Ariel Raunstein and Roy Osherove on the subject of test. Roy...

I’ve released the RemoteInstaller Test Framework 1.2. It’s the second open-source release, and I am pleased to see some community adoption. RemoteInstall is a system for automat...

I was very happy upgrading to Windows 7. Virtually everything worked. All kinds of source code that I am writing compiles and runs without issues. It’s only a week later that I ...

In a previous post I had implemented clicking through menus with White. Someone pointed out that this was a solved problem and I didn’t need to write any code.

Just when I thought things were well under control in dotNetInstaller, someone filed this bug. It basically says that an installed check doesn’t work. This is pretty major funct...

We’ve recently upgraded the Visual Studio 2005 SP1 C++ Redistributable to a newer version with the ATL security update. We quickly found that the installer requires a reboot in ...

A couple of years ago we used to have a really big problem with Windows installers. We had one guy writing InstallShield installers and a bunch of components thrown at him with ...

I am pleased to announce the open sourcing of the RemoteInstall Test Framework.

I shipped dotNetInstaller 1.7 yesterday. Download it here. You can see the long list of what’s new on the release page, but that’s not the topic of my post.

Someone forwarded me Joel Spolsky’s article, The Duct Tape Programmer. I think Joel must have been a manager for far too long.

I’ve been playing with VMware lately, both Workstation and VMware Infrastructure (VI). The company has really stepped up with the new SDKs and the level of programmable interfac...

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