On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 12:49 AM, Korny Sietsma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Totally agree with this - I'm happy to work with specs that just define a > single bit of the system's behaviour (i.e. "unit tests") and specs that > define behaviour across several different parts of the system (i.e. > "integration tests") - but it drives me mad when they are all mixed in > together, rather than in different directory trees. > > Incidentally, is there a good naming scheme for this distinction in the BDD > world? I'm used to saying "unit tests", "integration tests", "acceptance > tests" (though the precise meaning of the last two seems to vary widely > between different organisations!) but I'm not sure what to call them in > rspec-land. "unit specs"? "stories" in story-runner?
I've been using "Stories" and "Object Specs". David > > - Korny > > > > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Maurício Linhares > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 2:59 AM, aslak hellesoy > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I also had to go into specs on a project I'm not working on, and > found > > > > an unholy hive of database-accessing specs. It's disheartening. > > > > Basically, it's cargo cult development practices - using the "best > > > > practice" without actually understanding it. > > > > > > > > > > What "best practice" are you referring to? > > > > > > > I'm also interested in discovering what is this "best practice". > > > > I can't see any problem in specs running against a database, that's > > exactly what integration testing is about, shouldn't we do integration > > testing just because we're using BDD? I really don't think so. > > > > The big problem about specs running against a database is not knowing > > that it's integration testing and also that specs that access > > databases run slower than "pure" unit tests, but you can't be sure > > that your app works without a bunch of integration tests. > > > > -- > > Maurício Linhares > > http://alinhavado.wordpress.com/ (pt-br) | > > http://codeshooter.wordpress.com/ (en) > > João Pessoa, PB, +55 83 8867-7208 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > rspec-users mailing list > > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users > > > > > > -- > Kornelis Sietsma korny at my surname dot com > kornys at gmail dot com on google chat -- kornys on skype > "we do what we must, because we can" > _______________________________________________ > 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
