On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Zhi-Qiang Lei <zhiqiang....@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sep 30, 2010, at 9:56 PM, Rick DeNatale wrote: >
>> What you really should be testing that the observable effects of the >> call are 'as if' the super call were made. >> >> If you could test that the super call was made it would be testing >> that the implementation were a certain way more than the behavior of >> the object, and that's the road to writing brittle tests. > > In my case, there is already a test case for the method in class A, and its > feature is complex. So I was trying to test the super call but observable > effect for simple. Anyway, thank you both. That's what shared example groups are for. -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Github: http://github.com/rubyredrick Twitter: @RickDeNatale WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
