From: Gaspard Bucher <gaspard@...>
Date: 2008-11-19T23:03:42+09:00
Subject: Re: I don't like specs, should I change my point of view ?

There are 1360 tests in zena. I have a post about why we do not use
rspec: http://zenadmin.org/261.

What we *do* use a lot is yaml testing:

nodes_in_site:
  src: "<r:nodes in='site' limit='3'><r:each join=', ' do='show'
attr='name'/></r:nodes>"
  res: "anonymous, ant, art"

Gaspard

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Zouplaz <user@domain.invalid> wrote:
> Hello, I'm not trolling. I don't like specs (RSpec) : everytime I had a look
> to specs I felt it was only syntaxic sugar driven by a big machinery and I
> continued to write classic unit tests.
>
> But I've seen more and more projects using rspec - So I consider beeing
> wrong about this software.
>
> Do you have any link to articles that advocates for or against specs ? Or do
> you have any argument in favor of specs compared with plain old test suites
> ?
>
> Thanks
>
>