From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2004-05-20T06:02:53+09:00
Subject: Re: How to duck type? - the psychology of static typing in Ruby

Marek Janukowicz wrote:

> Such a separation is rather obvious. The business logic is rather easy
> to test, but in my experience most bugs occur on the UI side (especially
> in the connection layer between UI and business logic). How do you test
> UI?

UI is often hard, especially GUI.

But I ran into an idea the other day that I was unfamiliar with.

'Expect' is sometimes used to wrap a GUI around a text interface --
spawn the process and interact with it.

Of course, that in itself is non-trivial perhaps.

But a text interface is easier to test, especially with Expect.


Hal