When to choose system test over integration test Rails 5.1?

Question

With the release of Rails 5.1, they included system tests. Which means we can test our JavaScript too in Rails. I see Rails guide explains a sample test creating article

Answer 1

TL;DR: I would go with system tests instead of integration tests in any app I started today. The only advantage of integration tests is speed.

I think system tests have 2 great advantages over integration tests:

• They test interactions with real screens, instead of making synthetic requests for simulating those.
• They are much more realistic and comprehensive. For example, a broken piece of Javascript will make the spec fail, while it will be ignored in an integration test.

I think the only benefit of integration tests is speed. They are much faster indeed (check this experiment I made). For me, the speed difference is not such a big concern because:

• I can run isolated system tests in under 2s in my box. That is fast-enough feedback for my coding happiness.
• I rely on cloud test runners with parallelization for large suites.

I think both local and cloud speed and parallelization are good enough today, and will only get better with time. So I believe system tests is a much safer bet if you are starting a new app today.