I haven't posted in a while, but I want to say that as someone who spends a significant portion of his time teaching (T/B)DD I am totally in love with pending specs. There are analogous concepts in nearly every xUnit/xSpec, but pending is by far the best. Kudos. On Jul 23, 2012 9:57 PM, "David Chelimsky" <dchelim...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 11:19 AM, James Cox <ja...@imaj.es> wrote: > > Hey, > > > > in a bunch of the rescues i've recently done, I see a pretty big anti > > pattern: tests don't work, and so rather than making them work, the > > dev team just comments them out till 'later'. > > > > Does anyone think it'd be useful/interesting to get a flag for rspec > > which would compare lines vs lines-commented, and if the percentage > > was higher than xx, it'd issue some kind of warning? > > The pending feature is designed to help with this problem by allowing > you to disable an example while still keeping it visible. > > If we were to do what you propose, we'd need to offer an opt-out > and/or the ability to configure the percentage. Consider a suite that > uses a lot of comments to annotate the specs. The problem with making > it configurable is that the folks who's priorities lead them to > comment out examples instead of fixing them will likely just disable > this feature. > > I'd say, let's encourage people to use 'pending' correctly. WDYT? > > Cheers, > David > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users >
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