Improving performance for your test suites is one of those things that can easily get overlooked when starting a new project but gets increasingly crucial as the test suites grow. a faster test suite results in less time waiting for the tests to run which saves time during development and increases productivity for developers.
In this article, we will explore the differences between selenium and rack_test and how you can leverage them to speed up your test; we will use Rspec as our testing framework for this article.
Rack::Test
Speed: It is generally faster than Selenium because it does not require a server or a browser to run tests. `rack_test` interacts directly with Rack…