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 Level up your testing by introducing some chaos to your test data. FakerMaker is an incredible factory builder used to generate test data. When introduced to a test-pack (alongside Faker), it elevates tests by introducing dynamic test data to ensure we’re not constantly testing with the same old boring static data. FakerMaker.factory :some_fancy_object, naming: :json do some_required_attribute { Faker::Lorem.sentence } some_optional_attribute_1 { Faker::Lorem.word } some_optional_attribute_2 { Faker::Lorem.word } some_optional_attribute_3 { Faker::Lorem....