Secrets of Testing Rails 5 Apps

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An overview of how Rails 5 improves the testing experience, covering built-in features like the new test runner, colored output, and faster integration tests. It discusses the shift in testing strategy toward testing explicit parts of the whole system rather than internals, and looks at practical changes in Rails 5 that support these improvements.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:41BIGBinary
3. 1:38Rails issues team
4. 2:41Stickers collector
5. 3:24Do you have a favourite Open source maintainer?
6. 4:09Delete tests
7. 4:22Secrets of Testing Rails 5 apps
8. 5:09Running tests
9. 5:35rake test
10. 5:46Test output matters!
11. 7:55Which tests were slow?
12. 8:30Because minitest!
13. 9:45Many libraries trying to solve same problem
14. 10:46Test Runner
15. 11:41Documentation
16. 12:40Improved filtering of tests
17. 13:33Running multiple tests
18. 13:52Improved reporting of failures
19. 14:34Backtrace
20. 14:57Deferred output
21. 15:09Colored output
22. 15:31Powered by Minitest 5
23. 16:04Inspirations
24. 17:09Writing tests
25. 17:24Unit tests Functional tests Integration tests
26. 18:01What to test in a controller
27. 22:07Almost same as controller test
28. 22:45Slow!!
29. 23:20Integration controller tests in Rails 5
30. 23:46Functional controller tests soft deprecated
31. 24:08Old functional tests will continue to work
32. 24:29Action Controller:: Test Case
33. 24:40Might be extracted to a gem in Rails 5.1
34. 24:59Implications
35. 26:29What not to test in a controller test?
36. 27:15Scratching the surface
37. 29:05Not just testing controller action in isolation
38. 29:35Controller View interface
39. 30:30Just an implementation detail
40. 31:27Testing controller isolated from views

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