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Acceptance Testing with Evan Light and Jorge Dias

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Test::Unit

Thoughts on what make good acceptance tests:

  • Don’t write brittle tests
  • Communication between the coder and customer
  • Not being low level
  • Keep them at the same level of abstraction

    • Thoughts on Cucumber:

    • Jorge likes Cucumber’s Given-When-Then
    • Cucumber’s plain english definitions are extra overhead when your customer isn’t going to read your
    • english definitions.
    • Evan likes Cucumber for:
      • Popping the why stack
      • Given When Then And
      • Evan doesn’t like:
        • It’s an external DSL
        • Boundary between the test language and the code
        • Has loose coupling between step definitions

          • We need our acceptance tests to run fast too.

          How do you test your javascript?

          • Selenium tests on the critical parts
          • Ignore the javascript and test the ajax requests.
          • capybara-webkit

            • parallel_tests gem

            Hydra
            jasmine-fixtures

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