Skipping tests in Minitest

We’ve all been there: Maybe you have a flaky test that you don’t have the time to fix right now, or you want to start writing tests for some future work that you aren’t ready to implement yet. At Paperless Post, sometimes we want to skip flaky acceptance tests until someone has a…

You’re invited

For six years, Paperless Post has focused on our hosts — the people seeking out the perfect invitations for their parties and paying us for virtual and physical paper. We concentrated our resources on designing thousands of unique cards for any occasion and building a sophisticated design platform and…

Recipe for Appium iOS App Testing

The Original Recipe

It is easy to setup automated tests with Appium. Just follow the install steps, set your preferences, and you are ready to write and run tests on the Appium server.

Intern Recap Summer 2016

Each summer, Paperless Post welcomes interns to join our engineering team! Our interns come from all over and have…

Paperless Post’s Infrastructure as Code Journey at Automacon.io

How I tracked down a flaky test

TLDR: I had trouble figuring out the root cause of a flaky test. I made several theories and used lots…

Jest unit testing for React.js

It’s common knowledge at this point that unit tests have a variety of benefits. In this post I’ll be describing my trials and triumphs implementing Jest unit testing for React.js. Three aspects I grappled with while developing Jest-based testing were customizable defaults…

The craft in our content

Our designs are made up of lots of different elements that come together seamlessly to form a final card design that act as the backdrop for our users to personalize with their unique messages and photographs. Before they go live on our site, they start as ideas for an occasion. From…

Homepage video

To celebrate our brand’s promise of connecting loved ones, we created a short film for our homepage that showcases a range of active events that all started with an invitation.

The active event