On Apr 30, 2010, at 9:36 AM, Steve Klabnik wrote: > "Integration testing" is also known as "full-stack testing."
This is true in the Rails world but it is far from a universal truth. Before Rails came around, integration testing (testing the integration between two or more non-trivial components) was actually a subset of functional testing (testing the system from the perspective of a user). I'll venture a guess as to why Rails turned that around: functional tests were part of the Rails testing infrastructure earlier on and when a new form of testing was introduced that had a wider scope, it needed a name, and "integration" seemed to fit the bill. I think "full-stack" or "end-to-end" testing are much more descriptive than "integration testing." > Basically, you're not testing isolated parts of the system, but the system as > a whole. Cucumber is integration testing. rspec with 'integrate_views' is > integration testing. _______________________________________________ > 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
