I have just written a load of test code that needed to verify that a particular set of classes behaved correctly when a transaction was rolled back.
However, the rest of my suite relied on transactional fixtures (which is Rails’ badly named way of saying that a transaction is started before each test and [...]

When you’ve got an application that has little or no test coverage it can be quite daunting making changes. What if you alter X and it breaks Y? Without running through the entire app by hand how will you know what you’ve broken?
Well you won’t.
Even worse, what if your [...]

I had the pleasure of speaking to Luke Redpath the other day.
I started off by thanking him for his Demeter’s Revenge plugin, which is one of the first things I install on a new project. He said he didn’t use it much any more, as he doesn’t do mocking, except during the design [...]

I’ve written up a new post at the Brightbox blog detailing how we are using RSpec and Cucumber to build acceptance tests for the next generation Brightbox systems.