Backend Working Group

The Backend Working Group focuses on our CI and test framework, and Ruby / Ruby on Rails.

We meet monthly in the #appeals-backend-workgroup Slack channel, and our agenda is here.

Application Backend Overview

Useful resources

• Backend Pattern META Home - Documenting some of the patterns used in Caseflow
• Code Quality - This page is somewhat dated, but the information is still accurate.
• Ruby Style Guide - A work in progress

Updates

• Updating Rails

Testing

• Backend Pattern Test - Testing best practices
• Backend Process Flaky Tests - Addressing flaky or unreliable tests that fail intermittently