Grinding Gears

At FreeAgent, we run 45,000 tests on every code change to make sure that our rails monolith continues to work as expected. These include unit, integration, and acceptance tests. Recently, we switched from Capybara-webkit to Headless Chrome with Selenium for running JavaScript and acceptance tests. Why did we switch? Capybara-webkit has now been deprecated and uses an old version of webkit engine, so we had to look for alternatives. We… Continue reading

Although I usually work in Support Engineering here at FreeAgent, I was recently given the opportunity to spend a six-week cycle working in the Dev Platform team. The technical aspect of the Support Engineer role is what drives me; I love to take a problem, dig into the source code and figure out how to solve it. The work in Dev Platform promised to be even more technical so I… Continue reading