[rspec-users] Monitor method invoking from superclass

Rick DeNatale
Thu, 30 Sep 2010 15:00:07 -0000

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Zhi-Qiang Lei <zhiqiang.lei at
gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sep 30, 2010, at 9:56 PM, Rick DeNatale wrote:
>

>> What you really should be testing that the observable effects of the
>> call are ''as if'' the super call were made.
>>
>> If you could test that the super call was made it would be testing
>> that the implementation were a certain way more than the behavior of
>> the object, and that''s the road to writing brittle tests.

>
> In my case, there is already a test case for the method in class A, and its
feature is complex. So I was trying to test the super call but observable effect
for simple. Anyway, thank you both.

That''s what shared example groups are for.


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