Managing Ruby Projects with rvm

Published December 27th, 2010 Under Configuration Management | Leave a Comment

This video presents rvm, a command line tool which allows us to easily work with multiple ruby interpreters and sets of gems. Explore the use of rvm to manage a ruby project’s entire environment including interpreter, gems, testing and other items.

Video Producer: Mountain West Ruby Conference

The JRuby Testing Story

Published November 29th, 2010 Under Unit Testing | 1 Comment

Testing is the most important activity in the development process. If you don’t test, how do you know that your code actually works correctly? And if you don’t have tests, how do you know you don’t break something? JRuby makes it possible to test Ruby code – but also to apply Ruby testing frameworks to Java code. This session will take a look at the current state of the start in JRuby testing, looking at how well the different frameworks work, and what you need to do to take your Java testing to the next century.

CruiseControl.rb Five Minute Installation

Published November 8th, 2010 Under Continuous Integration | Leave a Comment

This is a 5 minute video that takes you through the steps of getting CruiseControl.rb up and running with a Ruby on Rails project.

LinkedIn Ruby-Based, Page-Model-Oriented Testing Framework with Selenium

Published August 30th, 2010 Under Functional Testing | Leave a Comment

We all know that UI test automation for any complex, rapidly changing web application can be daunting. Authoring effective tests is often painstaking, and the maintenance burden of keeping them kicking is generally hefty. In order to stay on top and keep our QA team in good mental health here at LinkedIn, we’ve adopted the page object pattern and implemented it in a way that solves some of the common headache-inducing problems around test automation. Wade Catron will demonstrate how this approach affords us a natural feeling, driver-independent test API with a tidy home for element locator mappings, producing tests that are robust, readable, and easy to fix.

Video producer: San Francisco Selenium User Group

Testing C# and ASP.Net Applications Using Ruby

Published August 4th, 2010 Under Functional Testing | Leave a Comment

Ben Hall shows how Ruby testing tools can help with .NET and ASP.NET development and takes a look at RSpec, Webrat, Cucumber, Selenium and others. Also: a peek at using IronRuby for testing .NET apps.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/hall-testing-with-ruby

Grease your Suite: Tips and Tricks for Faster Testing

Published July 15th, 2010 Under Unit Testing | Leave a Comment

Continuous integration is a great way to keep your code base organized and well tested. But when a test suite takes so long to run that developers stop running it before every commit, they lose their constant feedback loop and quality drops. In this talk we’ll explore methods of speeding up the test suite so that developers can be confident about the code they’ve written before they share it with the team. We’ll start with quick cheap fixes, like optimizing your operating system, that can yield drastic results (like cutting test time in half!) with no loss of functionality. We’ll also cover methods of writing tests that reduce their run time with gems like fast_context for shoulda. At then end, we’ll move to more involved methods of multi-tasking your test suite to run on all the cores in your workstation and even to setting up a distributed testing cloud to run all your tests in parallel. Every tactic will be backed up with hard benchmarks from real production code. We’ll show the evolution of a test suite from its full run time of 13 minutes down to a number you won’t believe.

Video Producer: Gotham Ruby Conference

Learning TDD through Test-first Teaching

Published July 5th, 2010 Under Unit Testing | Leave a Comment

How to get started with TDD? Test-First Teaching is an innovative teaching approach that is gaining widespread adoption. Sarah Allen talks about how she teaches Ruby and Rails through a test-first approach. She demonstrates test-first teaching and then discuss how to turn the corner from simply making tests pass to how to use a test-first approach to software design.

Video Producer: East Bay Ruby Meetup Group

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