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Announcing the Brisk VS Code extension

Announcing the Brisk VS Code extension

We've implemented an extension to get the power of brisk in your VS Code IDE. Check it out in the VS Code extension store (it's free and open source) and if you want to contribute head over to https://github.com/brisktest/brisk-extension/ to check out the source code. Install

  • Sean Reilly
Sean Reilly Jun 5, 2024 • 1 min read

Brisk is now open source

I'm happy to announce that the code to Brisk is open source. We've released it under the Apache 2 license, so you can modify and run Brisk to your hearts content. You can access the source code on github at GitHub - brisktest/brisk: Brisk is a complete Continuous Integration

  • Sean Reilly
Sean Reilly May 25, 2024 • 2 min read
Rails Beta is Public Access

Rails Beta is Public Access

We've been running a private Rails Beta (thanks to everyone who has given us awesome feedback). It's time now to open up access to the general public. Our private beta users mostly use rspec so that is the default setup at the moment. However Minitest also works fine. Current beta

  • Sean Reilly
Sean Reilly Dec 15, 2022 • 1 min read
Python beta is now public

Python beta is now public

We've been running a private Python Beta for a while now and it's time to release it into the wild. Our private beta users mostly use pytest so that is the default setup at the moment. Combined with pytest-split (which comes pre-installed on the image) we have a really simple

  • Sean Reilly
Sean Reilly Dec 6, 2022 • 1 min read
Faster Horses - Category Creation is Hard

Faster Horses - Category Creation is Hard

“If I would have asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” Something Henry Ford never said, but it’s fun to pretend he did. What does it mean? That prospective users of your product can’t conceive of the innovation you are creating and would just

  • Sean Reilly
Sean Reilly Aug 2, 2022 • 3 min read
Why Run Tests Locally?

Why Run Tests Locally?

To verify that our code works before we commit it. Why not just commit and wait for the CI to tell us if we passed or failed? Because it is slow and interrupts developer momentum. This combination of slowness and interruption to your flow is extremely costly for productivity. Here

  • Sean Reilly
Sean Reilly Jul 26, 2022 • 1 min read
What is Brisk?

What is Brisk?

Brisk is a new way of running your tests from your terminal. It makes running your tests from your local machine extremely fast. When you run your tests with Brisk we sync your development directory and distribute your tests among our remote workers streaming the results back into your terminal.

  • Sean Reilly
Sean Reilly Jul 26, 2022 • 1 min read
What is the difference between Unit Tests and Integration Tests?

What is the difference between Unit Tests and Integration Tests?

A lot of people are confused about the difference between the various types of tests that you can write. There is a lot of overlap in definitions, terminology and abstractions so we are going to keep things simple here and just define the two most basic types of test, Unit

  • Sean Reilly
Sean Reilly Jan 29, 2022 • 2 min read
Welcome To Brisk

Welcome To Brisk

Running test suites has become so slow and unwieldy that nobody runs them locally anymore. Running your test suite locally takes a large quantity of time, turns your computer into a hot mess, renders it completely unusable or all of the above. It doesn't have to be this way. Enter

  • Sean Reilly
Sean Reilly Jan 29, 2022 • 1 min read
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