Gday Michael I would like to add that you constantly measure the changes being made to such an application through the use of metrical (or metric_fu under the hood).
Regularly measuring the effect of the changes you're imposing will indicate how you're gradually achieving your goals (a cleaner, more terse, DRY, idiomatic and well tested codebase). Abhinav On 12 October 2011 18:41, Michael Pearson <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm a firm believer that tests should not be flaky - a failure means you > broke something, a pass means your code works. > With the HTML and JS as it is right now I'm not confident that I could > write selenium tests that would not give me more false results than true > ones. > > On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 4:35 PM, Michael Gall <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Notably not on this list is unit or integration testing. The code is not >>> at the point where this can be performed effectively. >> >> This seems crazy. I can definitely understand the unit testing, but >> writing some Selenium tests before you start making any changes is a great >> way of creating a nice little safety belt for yourself. >> >> Cheers, >> >> >> Michael >> >> >> -- >> Checkout my new website: http://myachinghead.net >> http://wakeless.net >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > > > -- > Michael Pearson > The Bon Scotts; http://www.thebonscotts.com > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > -- Abhinav Keswani -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
