Category Archives: Testing

Turns out, cucumber/webrat is worse

Posted on 3/16/2010 by Moses

At CDD we use a fairly strange stack to run our automated in-browser (Selenium RC) integration tests. When we started writing these tests back in 2007, we used the best technology we knew of that was then available, a Rails … Continue reading →

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Too many mock objects == ruby refactoring death

Posted on 7/6/2008 by Moses

It’s a question we face as test-driven ruby programmers: Should we use mock objects or real objects in our tests? Both approaches have trade-offs, and their biggest downsides both have to do with wasting programmer time. If you test with … Continue reading →

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Chained Selenium RSpec examples

Posted on 8/8/2007 by Moses

From the RSpec documentation: It is very tempting to use before(:all) and after(:all) for situations in which it is not appropriate. before(:all) shares some (not all) state across multiple examples. This means that the examples become bound together, which is … Continue reading →

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