Hello
I don't think there's too much functionality in this script. Maybe a unit test
for what's worth of testing would be enough? In such case I'd recommend using
minitest. It has some stubbing built-in but maybe webmock [1] might be useful
for stubbing out communication with Foreman.
[1] https://github.com/bblimke/webmock
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Marek
On Thursday 21 of July 2016 01:50:02 otheus uibk wrote:
> Having written being in favor of Cucumber / Aruba, I do have doubts about
> it: the documentation is severely lacking, and while I finally found a
> decent guide, it's not clear to me using this will provide the tactical
> advantage I hoped for.
>
> On Thursday, July 21, 2016 at 2:54:09 AM UTC+2, otheus uibk wrote:
> > The critical nature of node.rb has taken me down the rabbit hole of
> > functional development, which in the ruby/puppet world means rspec. But in
> > order to refactor properly, what I really need here is to test the
> > behavior
> > of the script _as an executable_. The current rspec file does unit testing
> > on some of the internal methods of that file, treated as a module. Some
> > googling brought me to the ARUBA project, which is a sub project of
> > cucumber. I'm very keen on the whole BDD cycle in general, but
> > unfortunately, the *style* of documentation of that project makes it very
> > difficult for me to proceed. It's clear that if I were to test
> > external_node_v2.rb using cucumber/aruba, I will need to add quite a few
> > files and it's a lot of work. Which I don't mind doing. But before I
> > proceed, I ask: Are there objections to using cucumber / aruba within this
> > project? Are there alternatives for testing a program as a black box? (In
> > our case, the testing harness will need to start a temporary HTTP service
> > to provide test files, in lieu of an ability to set up a mock).
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