Cucumber performance improvements with Devise Token Authenticatable

Cucumber performance improvements with Devise Token Authenticatable

We're using Devise's token_authenticatable to improve Cucumber test suite performance.

Here's an example feature

  Scenario: I would like to edit a user account
    Given I am logged in as an admin user
    ...

And here's the step

  Given /^(?:I am logged in|the user is logged in|the user logs in|I log in)(?: as an? (\w+) user)?$/ do |role|
    if ENV['use_token']
      visit admin_dashboard_path(:token => @user.authentication_token)
    else
      Given("the user logs in with email: \"#{@user.email}\", password: \"#{@password}\"")
      ...
    end

We'll then run cucumber using a "faster" profile

cucumber -p faster

Here's our cucumber.yml

faster: <%= std_opts %> features FASTER=true

May want to add that you can add a new profile to your cucumber setup to run with this. Ours is cucumber -p faster. Checkout config/cucumber.yml.