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5 ways we’ve improved flakey test debugging

What's this blog post about?

The text discusses five improvements made to the RSpec test framework that have significantly improved its functionality and ease of use. These include saving database state for failed tests, creating a simple database cleaner, extracting logs from failed tests, tracing ActiveRecord IDs in logs, and resetting database ID sequences. By treating test code like production code, these enhancements have made debugging test failures much easier and more efficient.

Company
Buildkite

Date published
July 3, 2017

Author(s)
Keith Pitt

Word count
954

Hacker News points
None found.

Language
English


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