Unit Testing good study material
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From: Lakshmanan Muthukrishnan on 7 Jun 2010 00:40 I am a beginner in ruby and I have read the "Unit testing" chapter in Programming Ruby book. I want to study Unit testing using ruby in much more detail. Can somebody point me towards a good resource for that ? thanks -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
From: Rick DeNatale on 7 Jun 2010 07:37 On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 12:40 AM, Lakshmanan Muthukrishnan <lakshmanan(a)vinsol.com> wrote: > I am a beginner in ruby and I have read the "Unit testing" chapter in > Programming Ruby book. I want to study Unit testing using ruby in much > more detail. > > Can somebody point me towards a good resource for that ? you might want to google for a few terms related to that like TDD (or test driven design) or BDD (behavior driven design) I'd recommend "The RSpec book" from the Pragmatic Programmers which is currently in the last stages of their beta program, which means that you can buy the book as a PDF and optionally get the printed book when available. http://pragprog.com/titles/achbd/the-rspec-book As the name implies the book covers rspec rather than test::unit. RSpec has become a very popular alternative to test::unit for many Rubyists. It also covers Cucumber which is a higher level framework for writing user-level specifications/acceptance tests. The pair work very well in combination. There's also another pragmatic programmers title in beta "Rails Test Prescriptions" by Noel Rappin. http://pragprog.com/titles/nrtest/rails-test-prescriptions This was a self-published book, which focused more on Test::Unit, but included material on RSpec/Cucumber. It's been picked up as a title by the prags, I believe that it's more focused on Rails than the RSpec book, which covers the use of RSpec/Cucumber with Rails apps in the context of doing BDD in Ruby, whereas the Rappin book looks like it covers the use of RSpec and Cucumber as an extension of the Test::Unit based testing framework in Rails. HTH -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Github: http://github.com/rubyredrick Twitter: @RickDeNatale WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale
From: Rein Henrichs on 7 Jun 2010 13:11 An oldie but still a goodie is Kent Beck's Test Driven Development By Example. The examples are not in Ruby but they translate well and the book as a whole provides a strong foundation for TDD and testing in general. -- Rein Henrichs http://puppetlabs.com http://reinh.com
From: Rick DeNatale on 7 Jun 2010 15:29 On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Josh Cheek <josh.cheek(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 6:37 AM, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale(a)gmail.com>wrote: > >> I'd recommend "The RSpec book" from the Pragmatic Programmers which is >> currently in the last stages of their beta program, which means that >> you can buy the book as a PDF and optionally get the printed book when >> available. >> > > It's been in the last stages of beta for a really long time now :( It's > release date has been pushed back at least three times this year already. It suffers from the same fate as many books for Ruby, which is chasing a moving target. The current delay is that it was decided to delay the release until RSpec 2 is released, which is also being coordinated on the release of Rails 3. Even in its current 'beta' form it's quite complete and useful. -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Github: http://github.com/rubyredrick Twitter: @RickDeNatale WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale
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