On 11 Jul 2007, at 15:00, Pedro Del Gallego wrote: > Thats my biggest problem with rspec, (I'm a non english speaker > working in a German/English environment) It would be great a guide or > a tips list to make our specs more readebles, Something like 10 > English tips to improve your specs readability ;)
Don't think I can come up with 10 off the top of my head but I always told Pawel to follow the rule "phrase descriptions as GIVEN WHEN THEN". There's plenty of better examples on this list and elsewhere, but basically if I have an idea like this: A cow prodded with a stick should moo I think: GIVEN="a cow", WHEN="prodded with a stick", THEN="moo" and turn it into this code: describe Cow do before(:each) do @cow = Cow.new end it 'should say "moo" when sent prod_with_stick' do @cow.prod_with_stick.should == "moo" end end It doesn't apply rigidly to every situation, but 90% of the time, if I keep chanting GIVEN WHEN THEN I write clean, focussed specs. The rest is mainly vocabulary (although sometimes it can be hard to phrase something clearly). Ashley _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users