On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 12:08 PM, James Byrne <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote: > Zach Dennis wrote: > >> In my experience relying on the syntactic details of the page is >> extremely brittle and cumbersome. ... Some tags have both syntactic >> and semantic meaning, such as forms, labels, fieldsets, and anchor tags. >> > > Is it "brittle" to test for specific css selectors that are tied to page > details?
I think it depends on what details you're tying them to. :) > A typical case is where one has a button to drive in webrat > and instead of using the button text we use the associated id value > instead. Does the id have meaning? Or is it something that communicates nothing about what it is? ie: click_button "add_new_item" vs. click_button "foobar -- Zach Dennis http://www.continuousthinking.com http://www.mutuallyhuman.com _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
