Steve, I'm trying to persuade myself, or rather be persuaded by someone who knows better.
Since writing this I got an update of the RSpec book and noted that chapter 23 has been rewritten to discuss this. That's great, as the version I had really didn't cover it at all. Thumbs up to David et al for writing on it. Also thanks all for the replies, they to some extent reinforce what I was thinking myself, about complexity of said views, but also a lot of new insight too! On Oct 29, 3:09 pm, Stephen Eley <sfe...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 10:19 AM, David Chelimsky <dchelim...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Everything in between falls along a spectrum, and it's up to you to find the > > sweet spot, which _will_ vary from team to team, project to project, and > > even view to view. > > Here's a discussion on another forum in which nearly the exact same > question was asked:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1563007/ > > An excerpt from my answer: > > * * * * * > As a heuristic, I'd suggest that you should _strongly_ consider > writing a unit test any time any of the following questions can be > answered "Yes": > > * Is the code I'm writing more than trivially complicated? > * Does this code exist primarily to give answers to other code? > * Is this existing code that I'm refactoring (that doesn't already > have a unit test)? > * Have I found a bug in this code? (If so, write a unit test before > fixing it so it never sneaks in again.) > * Do I have to think for more than ten seconds about the most elegant > way to implement this code? > * Is my Spidey Sense tingling? > > If none of the above is true, then _maybe_ you can get away with just > doing integration testing. Again, there are a lot of cases where > that's reasonable. But if you do run into problems later, be prepared > to pay the price -- and that price should include writing unit tests > at any moment if they seem called for. > * * * * * > > -- > Have Fun, > Steve Eley (sfe...@gmail.com) > ESCAPE POD - The Science Fiction Podcast Magazine > http://www.escapepod.org > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-us...@rubyforge.orghttp://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
