On Apr 11, 2012, at 7:08 AM, Michael Guterl wrote: > I'm building a ruby wrapper for a SOAP service using savon and I'm > running into some issues with testing and I would love some feedback. > I have added some tests with the help of VCR, but unfortunately that > doesn't feel right given some of the constraints I'm running into. > > 1. The service provides no test mode or environment. > 2. Putting the service into a known state is difficult because some > objects are soft deleted. Attempting to save an object with the same > unique identifier as a soft deleted object is a unique constraint > violation. In order to test saving a new object in the system, an > actual new object will need to be created in our production > environment every time. > 3. It is hard to simulate certain conditions because of #2. Other > conditions like session timeouts are also difficult to simulate, > because it requires actually sleeping in my spec. Sleeping in the > spec is only necessary when not using VCR cassettes, once they are in > place the sleep is no longer needed. > 4. In the past when using VCR, I would be able to clear my > spec/cassettes directory, run the tests again, and refresh what was > there. Because of #2 this isn't possible for any tests that persist > new objects using the service. > > The only thing I can come up with is building a clone of the service > using sinatra and provide a subset of the functionality I need for > testing. I'm fairly certain this will allow me to get around all of > the constraints I mentioned and allow me to stub out specific requests > to simulate different conditions. > > Any feedback is greatly appreciated. > > Best, > Michael Guterl > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
They technically have no "sandbox", but could you open another production account for your own personal sandbox? Otherwise you're dealing with some serious limitations. _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
