On Jan 9, 2008 6:09 AM, Kerry Buckley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 9, 2008 10:01 AM, Stefan Magnus Landrø <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I totally agree with you, David!
Then you agree with the majority of the TDD community. > > > > For quite a while I was testing all my methods (even had to declare them > > protected/package scope in java!), but I realized that I was getting into a > > lot of trouble. Now I've shifted to testing functionality in stead of > > methods. > > > > Now, sometimes you might end up having small methods (typically a result of > > refactoring) that are being used by several clients. In that case you should > > start testing those methods, since they actually represent real business > > logic. Again, if they appear through refactoring, then they ARE tested through the public methods. The only time I would test them directly would be in the process of trying to locate the source of a bug, or if I wanted to move the method to another class because it represented a fundamentally different concept from the one represented by its current class. This is all TDD 101 stuff. Maybe we should have required reading on this list ;) Here are a few suggestions: http://www.amazon.com/Software-Development-Principles-Patterns-Practices/dp/0135974445/ http://www.amazon.com/Refactoring-Improving-Existing-Addison-Wesley-Technology/dp/0201485672 http://www.amazon.com/Test-Driven-Development-Practical-Guide-Coad/dp/0131016490/ http://www.amazon.com/Test-Driven-Development-Addison-Wesley-Signature/dp/0321146530/ These sorts of questions are explored in great detail in these books. Cheers, David > > I wonder whether that is a smell indicating that the functionality in > those methods really belongs in its own class? > > Kerry > -- > http://www.kerrybuckley.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users > _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
