Spring Advantages
Explore the advantages of using Spring in Rails testing to enhance speed and efficiency. Understand when Spring is most beneficial, how it helps run tests faster by minimizing startup time, and the impact on test-driven development workflows. Learn to identify scenarios where Spring improves feedback loops and when its use may mask underlying test suite performance issues.
We'll cover the following...
We'll cover the following...
How useful all of this is depends on what we’re trying to do.
Essentially, Spring is useful to the extent that startup time is swamping our test runtime. This normally happens in one of the following cases:
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Our test suite runtime is less than our application startup time
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Our test suite is slow, but we’re willing to run just a small subset of our tests ...