From: Ron Fox <fox@...>
Date: 2008-07-08T20:16:15+09:00
Subject: Re: advice needed on testing strategy

Make your wrapping capable of operating from a string.
Then your test XML and results are all in the same place

Bill Walton wrote:
> Greetings!
> 
> I'm working on a library that wraps REXML processing of a specific XML format (CCR - Continuity of Care Record).  The objective is to process the XML so that the developer doesn't have to.  So, for example, I can do...
> 
> ccr = RubyCCR::Document.open('demo.xml')  #open file / read the XML into a set of objects
> ccr.actors.each do |this_actor|
>     @first_name = this_actor.current_name.family
>     @last_name = this_actor.current_name.family
> end
> 
> From a testing perspective, my objective is to make sure that all the content in the XML file actually ends up in the appropriate objects / attributes.  Right now I'm loading specific XML files per testcase / test and hardcoding the expected values in my unit tests based on knowing what's in the XML file being loaded.  This seems wrong.  If anybody's got a better idea, I'd sure appreciate hearing it.
> 
> Thanks,
> Bill


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Ron Fox
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Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824-1321