CircleCI with Rails server and ember app

Question

I'm working on a Rails application, that uses ember as front-end framework for the client side within the application. I use Capybara on CircleCI to run the tests.

I have a lot of end-to-end tests, which make the build time very slow. I have found that the problem could be because it builds ember application for every spec file separately.

Is there anyone who knows if I can build the whole application once (somehow), and use that as the test server, to speed up the build. Or some other method/suggestion to improve the speed of my build.

Thanks

Answer 1

That would allow state from one test to affect a different test. The whole purpose of tests is for them to be completely independent of each other so any one could be run separately and/or in any order. If you really want multiple tests to run against the same page without clearing it out and reloading then you need to combine them all into one test.