Showing posts with label rspec. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rspec. Show all posts
Friday, March 9, 2012

Testing Terminology: Spies, Stubs and Mocks

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When referring to the definitions of Spies, Stubs and Mocks I like to return to XUnit Test Patterns : Test Spy : "We use a Test Double ...
Wednesday, December 21, 2011

An Example using RSpec double, mock, and stub

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This is a follow-up post for RSpec double, mock, and stub from earlier this year. A reader asked for an example code to illustrate the vari...
Saturday, July 30, 2011

Gotcha with testing expected params with Bourne/Mocha in Rails Controller

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This is something that always trips me up using Bourne (a fork of Mocha , a Ruby mocking and stubbing library) to test expected params in a...
Sunday, February 6, 2011

4 Things I Assert in Rails Controller Tests

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ActiveRecord Calls (using mocking) Assigns Flash Responses And if the response content type is not going to be HTML I will test that as well...
Friday, January 14, 2011

Stub called with unexpected arguments fixed in RSpec2 Mocks

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In RSpec 1.3 the following would pass: describe Person do describe "#greeting" do context "using #stub with correct param...

RSpec double, mock, and stub

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RSpec uses double to create a test double. However, there are two aliases for this method mock and stub . When do we use which alias? It d...
Thursday, December 30, 2010

Specifying Behaviour vs Specifying Implementation

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At the JRubyConf in Columbus, Ohio last October, Jim Weirich presented "Testing – Why Don't We Do It Like This?". At the end o...
Sunday, December 5, 2010

The Mocking Debate Continues

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Nick Gauthier recently blogged about " Everything that is wrong with mocking, bdd, and rspec ". Nicks' a smart guy, you just ...
Thursday, October 14, 2010

Slow startup with Rspec (1.3.0) and Spork

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This is probably network specific, because at my home office things are fine, but on site at a client, Rspec starts up very slow when runnin...
Friday, September 17, 2010

The Other RSpec Methods: #subject, #specify, and #let

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Recently I switched to RSpec from Shoulda. This switch was driven mostly by this announcement explaining ThoughtBot's intention in prov...
Friday, September 10, 2010

Autospec problem, autospec exiting without results

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A little frustration today with autospec (to clarify, not autospec's fault). I had recently installed RVM and started using gemsets (re...
Thursday, September 9, 2010

RSpec #stub vs. #stub!

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Confused by #stub vs. #stub! ? Consider #stub! deprecated and use #stub . #stub is simply an alias for #stub! . #stub! was defined in th...