Displaying 20 results from an estimated 30000 matches similar to: "testing behaviour or testing code?"
2007 May 24
9
Mocking, changing method interfaces and integration tests
Suppose we have a method ''foo'' which internally uses another method
''bar''.
Being good BDDers we mock out the ''bar'' method. After all, we only
want to spec the ''foo'' method - actually running the ''bar'' method
means slower, less maintainable and brittler specs. That''s why we <3
mocking,
2007 Sep 26
10
How do I best setup data for Story Runner?
Just started looking at the Story Runner integration, and am
converting a few Rails integration tests to get a feel for it.
My integration tests relied on fixtures, and since my models have a
significant amount of validation (and hence need valid data unless I
save without validation), this has made setup easy.
With stories however, I''m wondering what the recommended approach is.
2007 Mar 24
15
State Based vs. Behaviour Based Spec/Testing
I''ve notice that a project like Rubinius has both a spec & a test
directory. Rspec has only a spec directory. Obviously I support
BDD, but isn''t there also a place for state based/verification
testing? I sometimes sense that I *do* want to practice Test Driven
Development. That is, I want some assurance that my production code
will run as intended. But I also
2007 Sep 12
12
Philosophical questions
Disclaimer: The following are observations by a relatively new user
(couple of weeks) of RSpec and not intended as RSpec trollbait.
Also, forgive me if similar topics have been discussed elsewhere on
the mailing list. I at least did the due diligence of a quick search.
That said...
I''ve been positively thrilled with RSpec for use outside of Rails.
It has been in my attempts
2007 Oct 19
27
Assumption tests
Hi all,
I''ve been thinking about the whole validator/relationship speccing
issue, and I came up with a suggestion, which I''d love to get some
feedback on.
The full article is available at http://www.inter-sections.net/
2007/10/19/what-to-test-and-specify-and-where-to-do-it/ , with the
relevant bit being about halfway down, but here''s the gist of it:
1.
2007 Jul 06
5
Outside-In with RSpec on Rails
I just read ''Mocks Aren''t Stubs'' and was intrigued by the notion of
''outside-in'' TDD.
As a Rails developer, I''m curious if others are employing this method
when developing Rails applications using RSpec. Is it common practice
(or even practical) to drive the development of a Rails app by
starting with view specs, then controller specs, then
2006 Nov 07
7
should_redirect_to in advance - feels unnatural
I can understand that it''s easier for rspec to set up a mock in advance
of the controller call. But it makes it difficult to do something like:
context "The HarkController, given Louie the logged-in user" do
setup do
post :login, :username => ''louie'', :password => ''atest''
end
specify "should redirect Louie to the home
2007 Oct 26
7
Weird failing spec
Hi guys,
I have a weird failing spec, for which I just cannot figure out the
reason of failure. I''m now rewriting my controller specs based on the
advice of David and Ashley, and I got stuck on this (see: [rspec-
users] specing rescue, ensure and else blocks of an Exception).
http://pastie.caboo.se/111221
I''ve tried everything, like stubbing out :update_attributes! , even
2008 Jan 11
13
Role of stories vs specs, revisited
A couple months ago I asked how stories and specs might impact each
other. [1] If you look at Dan North''s example of what''s in a story
[2], and you imagine using the spec framework to drive the design, you
can probably imagine a significant bit of overlap in the two. Is that
a bad thing? I''m not sure. It has made me a bit uncomfortable
though, and I''ve
2007 May 30
4
Using mocks
I''ve just started doing TDD/BDD and like the idea of mocks. So I set
out to use them. The doc pages seem great, I setup the mock and then
it just works. Here is what I am trying to do:
Myuser is a non-rails model of user attributes. We are going to be
mocking the connection to the ldap server. The user class has a login
method that connects to the ldap server and if successful,
2008 Nov 21
57
Spec''ing via features
As I work with Rails TestUnit tests I am reconsidering how to use
cucumber features. It seems to me that it might be best to have a
coherent view of how to arrange my test suites before I get much further
into this. Now, so far I have considered three possibilities:
1. Use features exclusively. Create a feature file for each model, one
for each controller and possibly an additional one for
2007 Sep 16
10
I lost the RSpec fight
I''ve been working on a Rails project with one other developer; he was
using Test::Unit, and I was using RSpec. That works OK for a while, but
obviously it starts causing pain when you have to check in two places to
see if a piece of code is properly tested/spec''d, you can''t use TextMate
shortcuts to switch back and forth between code and test, you have to
duplicate
2008 Jan 11
9
Varying test data
This isn''t specific to RSpec, but is hopefully on-topic for this list.
I like (especially when "ping pong pairing") to write a spec, then
write the smallest amount of code I can to pass it (especially when
"ping pong pairing"). Sometimes this means hard-coding a return value,
which means another spec is needed to prove that the code is really
behaving as it
2006 Nov 21
10
Rspec Brown Bag
Hello,
I''m scheduled to give a rspec brown bag this Wednesday (11/22) for my
company (Pivotal Computer Systems, http://www.pivotalsf.com). I did see Dave
Astel''s talk as well as several of my coworkers.
The developers at my workplace are experienced Agile developers.
What would be some good things to focus on for this brown bag?
Are there slides to presentations that would be
2007 Apr 11
13
View Specs Fail with "protected method render"
I''ve got rspec and zentest installed as well as the rspec rails plugin, and
my model/controller specs all pass and work well. I can''t seem to get views
to work though - 100% of the specs fail with:
NoMethodError in ''/users/show.rhtml should render attributes in <p>''
protected method `render'' called for
2007 Dec 06
43
Mocks? Really?
OK, so i''ve played a bit with mocks and mock_models in controller and
view tests and i have a question. Is this statement really correct:
"We highly recommend that you exploit the mock framework here rather
than providing real model objects in order to keep the view specs
isolated from changes to your models."
(http://rspec.rubyforge.org/documentation/rails/writing/views.html
2007 Feb 22
7
We can''t 100% remove our unit tests from the database, can we?
I hope this isn''t too rambly. This is sort of a brain dump of a
subject I''ve been thinking about for months as I''ve used RSpec.
Let''s say we''ve got a simple query method, that will find all the
users in the DB older than 18. Our model could look like
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
def self.find_older_than(age)
find :all, :conditions =>
2007 Apr 25
9
Running specs for a plugin - undefined method ''define'' for object
I''m trying to write specs for a plugin I''m developing named audit_fu, and
I''m running into a problem which I can''t get past it. I''ve got the same
specs setup in the main rails app, and everything works fine there, it''s
just running the plugin specs that I''m having a problem with. My setup is:
- edge rails
- edge rspec (in
2008 Jan 17
5
unusual challenges speccing external software
This is something I''ve come up against twice. First, I have an
interactive editor which calls vi, emacs, or TextMate (etc.) via Unix,
and then loads the file handed to the editor back into IRB after it''s
edited and saved. I guess that makes it a special case of a more
general question, which is how do you spec external processes, with a
slightly more complicated version of the
2007 Oct 21
18
plain text stories
Thanks to discussions on this list, suggestions from many of you and a
patch from Pat Maddox, we now have Plain Text User Stories in Story
Runner.
Read more:
http://blog.davidchelimsky.net/articles/2007/10/21/story-runner-in-plain-english
Cheers,
David