From: john maclean Date: 2009-04-02T19:01:48+09:00 Subject: Re: official poll - unit testing 2009/4/2 Julian Leviston : > Personally, bdd rocks. > > Blog: http://random8.zenunit.com/ > Learn rails: http://sensei.zenunit.com/ > > On 02/04/2009, at 2:41 PM, David Masover wrote: > >> On Wednesday 01 April 2009 20:40:37 john maclean wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> My name is Mr Official and I am hereby asking you to participating in >>> my poll. "Do you really do unit testing?" >> >> [...] >>> >>> * I only unit test when >> >> I only unit test when I have enough of a concept of what I'm trying to >> build >> that a test makes sense. >> >> Places where I don't test: >> >> - Vague prototypes. Tests are a way to describe how something should >> behave. >> If I don't yet know how it's supposed to behave, I can't really write a >> test. >> Sometimes, you just have to experiment. >> >> - Tiny one-off scripts. Often, writing a test for these would require >> duplicating most of what the script already does, and it's not likely to >> contain any subtle bugs that you wouldn't find by just running it. >> >> - UIs. Mostly because I haven't gotten around to learning Selenium or >> anything similar. Also because this is the hardest place to automate >> testing, >> and the easiest place to manually test. >> > > Julian, Looks like you've just started your blog but when I search for bdd I get a "undefined local variable or method `on_empty' for #". That supposed to happen? -- John Maclean 07739 171 531 MSc (DIC) Timezone: GMT