Trying to run tests in parallel in your CI/CD pipeline is tricky at the best of times, but what if you have tests which should only be run in a certain environment and not as part of the CI build stage? It is fairly simple to just tag a feature file with a unique tag that can then be passed to the bundle exec rake command in the functional-tests step, as an environment variable....
We’ve recently publicly released a Gem called dvla-atlas1 and today we are going to take you through a bit of history surrounding testing at the DVLA that led to use developing Atlas, along with a dive into some of the code that makes it tick. Atlas is designed to make the managing of properties in functional tests easier while also ensuring that each test is run in isolation and without any cross-pollination of test data....
TL:DR Avoid using Cucumber Expression if possible. Using the conventional regular expression Cucumber is key to more flexible, reusable and customisable test code. When writing cucumber step definitions, developers and testers often face difficulties capturing parameters in test steps while ensuring that the steps flow smoothly in natural English sentences. Without a good knowledge of general regex, step definitions can appear clunky, even when using Cucumber Expressions to capture step definitions parameters....