Re: [rspec-users] Newbie testing questions
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Re: [rspec-users] Newbie testing questions
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[rspec-users] Newbie testing questions
I recently wrote my first gem and am now in the process of learning how
to write tests for it before I release.
My gem is pretty basic and really just has a few class files with some
methods for using GET to an API that returns some JSON data.
I'm trying to come up with what I should be testing for, but to be
honest this is where testing has always stumped me.
If I have a class file that looks like the following:
module MyModule
class MyClass MyParentClass
def search(keyword)
MyModule.get(/someurl/#{keyword})
end
end
end
The method in this class uses the HTTParty gem and just does a get on
this URL which returns JSON.
Is it a valid use case to test for the keyword argument? I am not sure
if there is any benefit to testing this since it's so very basic. It's a
good experiment for me since I am so new to testing but I really want to
understand what specifically I should be testing.
Any guidance would be greatly appreicated.
Thanks,
Ben
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Re: [rspec-users] Newbie testing questions
Hi Ben,
On 1 Jun 2012, at 16:46, Ben Densmore wrote:
I recently wrote my first gem and am now in the process of learning how
to write tests for it before I release.
My gem is pretty basic and really just has a few class files with some
methods for using GET to an API that returns some JSON data.
I'm trying to come up with what I should be testing for, but to be
honest this is where testing has always stumped me.
If I have a class file that looks like the following:
module MyModule
class MyClass MyParentClass
def search(keyword)
MyModule.get(/someurl/#{keyword})
end
end
end
The method in this class uses the HTTParty gem and just does a get on
this URL which returns JSON.
Is it a valid use case to test for the keyword argument? I am not sure
if there is any benefit to testing this since it's so very basic. It's a
good experiment for me since I am so new to testing but I really want to
understand what specifically I should be testing.
Any guidance would be greatly appreicated.
Thanks,
Ben
You want to aim to test logic, or behaviour. Think about each test as a warning
light that you're fitting to your system; if someone comes along later and
inadvertently changes the behaviour, the warning light will go off and alert
them to their mistake.
In this example, the only behaviour you have is mapping the keyword into a URL,
so your warning light could check something like
describe MyClass
context searching do
it calls the web service with the correct URL do
MyModule.should_receive(:get).with(/someurl/example-keyword)
MyClass.new.search('example-keyword')
end
end
end
Because there's so little actual behaviour in the example you've given above,
this test looks a bit pointless. If you have some more examples of code where
there's more risk that something could get broken in the future, let us see
that and we can probably give you more useful advice.
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