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Run parallel jobs on Semaphore CI 2.0 to get faster CI build time
Semaphore CI 2.0 allows configuring your CI build task with parallel jobs. This way you can run simultaneously a few different commands that do not depend on each other. But we could also use parallel jobs to split your test suite across a few jobs and this way save time. I will show you how to speed up your CI build for Ruby or JavaScript project (Rails / Node project).
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Jenkins Pipeline how to run parallel tests in your workflow stages
Jenkins Pipeline is a suite of plugins that allows creating simple-to-complex build stages for your testing environment on CI. We can use Jenkins Pipeline to run a few stages at the same time and thanks to that parallelize test suite across a few stages to complete tests faster.
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How to run CodeShip Parallel Test Pipelines efficiently - optimal CI parallelization
When you use CodeShip as your CI server you can significantly increase the speed of your CI builds with Parallel Test Pipelines. Pipelines allow you to run multiple commands at the same time, for instance, you can split test suite across a few pipelines and complete the CI build much faster.
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CircleCI 2.0 cache Ruby gems or npm dependencies
CircleCI 2.0 allows us to cache specific files or folders. We can use that to cache ruby gems installed with bundler and restore them when we will run another CI build. This way new CI build could run faster by using cached files from the previous build. This article shows you how to cache npm dependencies as well.
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How to run parallel dynos on Heroku CI to complete tests faster
Heroku provides a CI solution out of the box for teams. They can run tests in dyno instance for your project. What’s more interesting you can run parallel dynos as part of your CI build. This allows you to split tests on parallel dynos to complete CI build faster and save time.
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How to run Travis CI parallel jobs with build matrix feature fast
Travis CI allows you to run multiple jobs as part of the same CI build. They even allow for up to 200 parallel jobs for open source projects (the same for private repositories). You can leverage that using Travis build matrix feature to run your project way faster by splitting tests into many smaller jobs that will run a subset of your test suite.
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Improve CircleCI parallelisation for RSpec, Minitest, Cypress
Maybe you use CircleCI parallelisation to run your test suite across multiple CI nodes but you noticed that some CI nodes take more time to complete tests than the others.
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Run javascript E2E tests faster with Cypress on parallel CI nodes
Cypress test runner is a great alternative to Selenium in end-to-end testing space. When it comes to E2E tests they tend to grow with time and running them is slow and becomes time waisting or just coffee break for developers. ;)
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Clean RSpec configuration directory structure for Ruby on Rails gems needed in testing
When your Ruby on Rails project is getting bigger your test suite as well. You need to test more of your business logic and sometimes you will use other gems that can help you with that. Most of the time you may need something like
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How to run tests in Minitest continuously with dynamic test files loading
Recently I’ve been looking into the source code of Minitest to find out if I can run some tests and then dynamically run another set of tests once the previous run is done. This would allow me to provide dynamically a list of tests to execute on my parallel CI nodes to run CI builds faster.
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How to export test suite timing data from Knapsack Pro API
Knapsack Pro tracks your CI builds and how long each test files took to run on one of parallel CI nodes. Thanks to that Knapsack Pro can prepare the optimal test suite split for your future test suite runs on your CI provider.
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CircleCI 2.0 Capybara feature specs - Selenium webdriver with Chrome headless
I’ve been using Capybara-WebKit for a long time but while switching from CircleCI 1.0 to CircleCI 2.0 I had some problems to use it on the CI.
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When distributed locks might be helpful in Ruby on Rails application
During this year I noticed 2 similar concurrency problems with my Ruby on Rails application and I solved them with distributed locks. I’m going to show you how to detect if your application might have a concurrency problem and how to solve it.
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Auto balancing 7 hours tests between 100 parallel jobs on CI - Buildkite example
I like tests. You may like them too because thanks to them you are not afraid to change the code. Tests can help you catch errors earlier. I like tests, even more, when they are fast.
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