Musings on Software and Other Curiousities

Part 1 in this series, factory-built fixtures, can be found here.

I’ve begun wanting to reduce my usage of smartphones and tablets.

Over the past few months, I’ve been working part-time on an overhaul of the RSpec test suites belonging to two mid-sized Ruby on Rails applications. Both possess a few hundred system tests, with nearly no existing unit tests. The system tests are great for regression testing and getting to understand how these applications are supposed to work.