Today I Learned

When a drone build is configured to both deploy and then delete AWS services, it is vital the AWS clean up step runs to maintain the AWS stacks within their limit. To ensure these steps run before the build times out, you can wrap your cucumber command in the linux timeout command within the drone pipeline example: commands: - cd functional-tests || exit 1 - timeout -k 10 10m bundle exec rake test Linux Timeout The timeout command is a command-line utility that will run the specified command for a given period of time, once that period of time is reached if the given command is still running it will be terminated....

Traditionally, in functional testing, a clean up/tear down script would be run in something called an After hook. These hooks are part of the Cucumber DSL and are designed to execute when a scenario has finished. Cucumber example: After do |scenario| if scenario.failed? MultiLogger.clean_logs end end There is a drawback to these hooks where they will fail to run when certain exit codes are returned from the scenario or the program is interrupted....

Trying to generate numerous, realistic-looking objects for automation testing can be difficult. Using FakerMaker to do just that is preferable; using factories with Faker to dynamically create the test data you need in whatever format you need, is far better than using fixtures. But what if you needed more than one object of the particular factory that you have created? Creating a factory We can use Faker and FakerMaker to create an individual factory for an API request body like this:...

TL:DR Capture full-length webpage screenshots using built in Developer Tools. Sometimes when developing a webpage you may need to send screenshots back and forth between members of your squad or business. When doing this it is important that you capture the full webpage in order to really display what you’re working on. Which is why introducing simple devtools may be of use. In order to do this you will need to firstly open your browser of choice and navigate to the page you would like to capture....

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....