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Lessons:- Our First Tests

The Rails Tutorial takes an intuitive approach to testing that emphasizes the behavior of the application rather than its precise implementation, a variant of test-driven development (TDD) known as behavior-driven development (BDD). Our main tools will be integration tests (starting in this section) and unit tests (starting in Chapter 6). Integration tests, known as request specs in the context of RSpec, allow us to simulate the actions of a user interacting with our application using a web browser. Together with the natural-language syntax provided by Capybara, integration tests provide a powerful method to test our application’s functionality without having to manually check each page with a browser. (Another popular choice for BDD, called Cucumber, is introduced in Section 8.3.)

The defining quality of TDD is writing tests first, before the application code. Initially, this might takesome getting used to, but the benefits aresignificant. By writing a failing test first and then implementing the application code to get it to pass, we increase our confidence that the test is actually covering the functionality we think it is. Moreover, the fail-implement-pass development cycle induces a flow state, leading to enjoyable coding and high productivity. Finally, the tests act as a client for the application code, often leading to more elegant software designs

It’s important to understand that TDD is not always the right tool for the job. There’s no reason to dogmatically insist that tests always should be written first, that they should cover every single feature, or that there should necessarily be any tests at all. For example, when you aren’t at all sure how to solve a given programming problem, it’s often useful to skip the tests and write only application code, just to get a sense of what the solution will look like. (In the language of Extreme Programming [XP], this exploratory step is called a spike.) Once you see the general shape of the solution, you can then use TDD to implement a more polished version.

In this section, we’ll be running the tests using the rspec command supplied by the RSpec gem. This practice is straightforward but not ideal, and if you are a more advanced user I suggest setting up your system as described in Section 3.6

 
 
 
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Neha  Jaggi

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Experienced Software Developer with a demonstrated history of working in the Information Technology and services industry. Skilled in Web Technologies (Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, php, Laravel and AJAX). 


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