Tom, I appreciate the reply...
So would I be correct in saying that I should develop all of my spec tests first, and then finish it up by running some cucumber tests? Thanks! Chris On Jul 15, 11:34 pm, Tom Stuart <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Chris, > > On 16 Jul 2009, at 04:14, Chris Sund wrote: > > > Can someone clarify in "simple" terms the relationship between rspec > > and cucumber. > > Very short answer: > > RSpec is for specifying the behaviour of individual pieces of your > application, ideally in isolation from all of the other pieces. The > mocking framework allows you to write specs for each separate piece > (e.g. each class) in a way that doesn't depend on any of the other > pieces: "Assuming that pieces A and B and C behave in the way they're > supposed to, piece D should behave like this...". This gives you a way > to drive the actual implementation of your application in detail, at > the level of individual methods doing simple jobs. > > Cucumber is for specifying/testing the overall behaviour of your > application. Whereas RSpec exercises each individual piece in > isolation, Cucumber exercises the interactions between all of the > pieces, and allows you to check what happens when several such > interactions happen in a particular order (e.g. a user playing a > complete game of Codebreaker, or going through the complete checkout/ > payment process in a web application). Whereas RSpec examples are very > fine-grained and implementation-focused, Cucumber features are meant > to be broad and high-level in a way that makes them meaningful to > actual users of the application (or the customers who are asking for > it to be built) rather than just programmers. > > One way of thinking about this is that your specs make all sorts of > assumptions about how the rest of the system is meant to behave, and > Cucumber is a way of actually checking those assumptions by running > the system as a whole. > > Cheers, > -Tom > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > [email protected]http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
