The Great Test Framework Dance-off
Josh Susser (Pivotal Labs)
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Survey of Rails test frameworks
- descriptions of major players: test/unit, test/spec, rspec, simply_bdd, shoulda, etc.
Evaluate frameworks on a number of scales
- readability, transparency, compactness, ease of refactoring, etc., etc.
- support for testing views, helpers, routes, associations, validations and other Rails-specific features
- mocking/stubbing support
- fixtures and other test data creation approaches
- pitfalls and idiosyncrasies
Examples
- one modest Rails app, equivalent tests written in 2 or 3 frameworks
- goal is to show best use of each framework, tests may look similar or different depending on features and idioms
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Josh Susser
Pivotal Labs
Josh Susser is a full-time Rails developer, a senior engineer at Pivotal Labs in San Francisco, and a frequent contributor to the Ruby on Rails open source project. If you’ve ever built a model that used a self-referential has_many :through association, you’ve probably read his blog.
