Posts Tagged ‘specifying’

Quick Tip: make it easier to debug your full-stack acceptance tests

Posted by Rahoul Baruah on March 24th, 2009 under Ruby on Rails and Software Development, Writing Reliable, Bug-Free Code Tags: , , , , , , ,  •  1 Comment

ne of the issues when using Selenium or Watir to power your full-stack acceptance testing (apart from the time it takes for the test suite to run), is that stuff happens within your browser, fails and then Cucumber happily moves on to the next test before you get a chance to look at what went [...]

The trouble with mocks (or design versus acceptance)

Posted by Rahoul Baruah on March 12th, 2009 under General Tags: , , , , , , , ,  •  2 Comments

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 [...]