Rocket Fueled Cucumbers
Joseph Wilk • Baltimore, MD • Talk

Date: June 07, 2010
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Tools like Cucumber encourage driving new pieces of functionality through tests which cut through the entire Rails web stack, including the database. As a consequence these Acceptance tests can be quite slow. This leaves us in a dichotomy, you want to keep adding new features to your product and you want to maintain rapid test feedback. Somethings got to give. So how do we scale Acceptance tests?

RailsConf 2010