On Nov 11, 2007, at 12:47 PM, David Chelimsky wrote: > On Nov 11, 2007 11:01 AM, Alvin Schur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> On Nov 08, 2007, at 6:07 pm, Alvin Schur wrote: >>> >>> >>>> My goal is to detect inter-dependencies sooner than later... >>>> >>> >>> >>> I have to say I've NEVER run specs backwards. Am I sitting on a >>> time >>> bomb? Are there subtle traps that can create inter-dependencies >>> between specs? To look at my specs I would not assume that running >>> order matters - I don't think I've ever used before(:all) for >>> example. >>> >>> Ashkey >>> >> Our team uses Test::Unit and numerous inter-dependencies have >> crept in. >> Our team is also slowly moving to rspec. >> >> Part of resolving the inter-dependencies is: >> >> 1) education >> 2) early detection >> >> I don't want to be the "dependency police" particularly if rspec >> can do >> the job automatically for everyone on the team. > > Well - I don't think rspec should do this implicitly - that might > cause quite a bit of confusion for unsuspecting devs trying to debug. > > I command line arg like --toggle_reverse might work - but you'll have > to submit a feature request in the tracker and probably a patch if you > want to see it any time soon. Very low priority on my list.
I really like this idea, especially having had the following experience: My coworker had no failing tests with rake spec, but I was having failing tests with Autotest. He had introduced something into before (:all) which stored some data into the database. Oddly enough - the tests weren't failing for him, although they were failing in reverse for me- showing a dependency between the specs. The worst part is that he was convinced this was a non-problem (because they were passing for him). I would implement this patch, if I had some good idea where I should store the state of the last test run (without adding an extra text file to my project). Scott _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
