On 10 Apr 2008, at 17:00, David Chelimsky wrote:
> otooh - having some scenarios logging in using a post and some by
> poking around under the hood creates an untested logical binding
> between the post and the poking. This has the same risk associated
> with it that raises so much concern about mocks without integration
> tests that don't use mocks.
>
> I'm not saying that there should be a visible log-in step in every
> scenario. I would just use a request (or series of requests) instead
> of controller.send("current_user=",...).
Recently I've done a load of selenium-based stories and every single
one had to log in, except the one that checks you can't do anything
when you are not logged in. There was no way round the login process,
so I had to put it in. But there were other stories that I couldn't
do purely through the browser (eg those that needed users created and
attached to organisations) because not all of the required GUI had not
been built first*. For these I resorted to database access.
My questions are:
- is this acceptable as a bootstrapping processes (direct DB creation
of data until the GUI exists)
- is this acceptable in the long run, if you write a story that shows
that the database changes produce the corresponding user-visible
changes?
Ashley
* it was not an agile project
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