On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 9:49 AM, David Chelimsky <dchelim...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Nick Hoffman <n...@deadorange.com> wrote: >> On 07/02/2009, at 10:45 PM, David Chelimsky wrote: >>> >>> On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Nick Hoffman <n...@deadorange.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> On 07/02/2009, at 1:16 PM, David Chelimsky wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Nick Hoffman <n...@deadorange.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> When writing Cucumber stories and features for controllers, should you >>>>>> cover >>>>>> every edge case? For example, should you write stories that feed bad or >>>>>> missing data to your controllers, or should that be left to RSpec? >>>>> >>>>> Depends on the team and who can read what and who cares about what. >>>>> >>>>> In most cases, Cucumber is a significantly better >>>>> developer/stakeholder collaboration tool than RSpec is. If your >>>>> stakeholders trust you to cover the edge cases, then they don't need >>>>> to be in cucumber, but they certainly can be. >>>>> >>>>> IASTDH, >>>>> David >>>> >>>> Makes sense. Thanks for the clarification. >>>> >>>> By the way, what on Earth is IASTDH? A few Google searches later, I'm >>>> still >>>> none the wiser. >>> >>> I made it up. I was about to write HTH, but I was sure it did not >>> help, hence IASTDH - inconsistent though - IA for I am, but D for >>> didn't, so it should either be ISTDH or IASTDNH. >>> >>> HTH, >>> David >> >> Hah! Actually, it was helpful. I was wondering if there's a clear-cut rule >> that people follow for dealing with edge cases, and you said "do what works >> for your situation". While some people may not appreciate that answer, it's >> "correct", and probably the best thing to do, because each team is >> different. > > I think I have a new slogan: > > Silver Bullets Kill > > WDYT?
Shoulda googled that first :) How about Silver Bullets Kill Software (SBKS) > >> -Nick >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
