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  1. Testing Techniques: The I/O Table

    Leverage the power of the I/O table mindset to make your tests as maintainable and readable as possible.

    Thiago Araújo Silva
    April 21, 2022
    • Testing
    • Ruby
    • Database
    • Postgres
  2. Integration Testing with Capybara

    Blend the speed of Rack::Test-driven Integration Tests with the power and utility of Capybara finders and assertions.

    Sean Doyle
    November 3, 2021
    • Rails
    • Testing
    • HTTP
    • HTML
  3. Testing Your Edge Cases

    A little combination math goes a long way to catching edge cases.

    Joël Quenneville
    September 8, 2021
    • Testing
    • Ruby
    • Development
  4. Simplifying Tests by Extracting Side-Effects

    Test-driven development, object-oriented design, and functional programming converge on some similar ideas.

    Joël Quenneville
    February 18, 2021
    • Web
    • Ruby
    • TDD
    • Testing
    • Functional Programming
    • Good Code
  5. Type-Driven Design, Test-Driven Design

    TDD purism belongs to the world of dynamic typing.

    Mike Burns
    February 8, 2021
    • Types
    • Testing
    • TDD
  6. Testing Objects with a Functional Mindset

    Some ideas from functional programming can help us improve the unit tests for our object-oriented code.

    Joël Quenneville
    January 19, 2021
    • Web
    • Functional Programming
    • Testing
    • Good Code
    • Ruby
  7. Kudos to INDUSTRYconf for these great moments

    The thoughtbot team shares what Product Strategy ideas stood out to them from this years INDUSTRYconf.

    Kyle Fiedler and Kelly Gebo
    October 1, 2020
    • Design Research
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  8. The Self-Contained Test

    Learn how to write tests so they’re easy to read and your colleagues will thank you.

    Edward Loveall
    May 18, 2020
    • Testing
    • Good Code
    • Ruby
  9. Announcing Fishery – a JavaScript and TypeScript Factory Library

    We have just released Fishery, a TypeScript-compatible library for setting up JavaScript objects for use in tests and anywhere else you need to set up data.

    Stephen Hanson
    February 5, 2020
    • TypeScript
    • JavaScript
    • Testing
    • Web
  10. The Case for WET Tests

    We can always make our test suite more DRY. But should we?

    Amanda Beiner
    December 10, 2019
    • Testing
    • TypeScript
    • JavaScript
    • React
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