David Vollbracht

Zak Tamsen and Dan Manges gave a wonderful talk about the testing practices developed on projects we’ve been on. One of the themes throughout the presentation was the speed with which your tests should provide you with feedback. They mentioned DeepTest when talking about functional tests, which is a gem that will run your Test::Unit tests or RSpec examples in parallel. It will even distribute your tests to multiple machines so that you can speed up your test runs by adding more hardware.

I authored (with Zak’s and Dan’s support) an article for Something Nimble, which you can read here. It covers the ways DeepTest has grown since the first article that Zak and Dan wrote, which you might also find useful. DeepTest is still in it’s formative years and we’re always looking for suggestions and help for taking it to the next level. If you use it let us know what you wish it did better, and if you extend we welcome your contributions to the project. I hope working with DeepTest brings you as much enjoyment and I’ve gotten from working on it.