MiniTest is the no-nonsense testing framework you already know how to use. If we strive for cleaner and simpler code in our own work, wouldn’t it be nice to have that in our test framework too? Whether you’re a Test Unit fan or RSpec fan, you’ll feel right at home …
Most Ruby programmers spend significant time writing, maintaining and troubleshooting automated tests. While recent discussions in the Ruby community have focused on whether we’re writing too few or too many tests, this talk looks at how we can write “sensible” tests that allow our applications to deliver the most possible …
The Ruby community has become obsessed with testing, we aim for TDD all the fucking time, and 100% code coverage. Yet in our applications, our JavaScript lingers, untested and unrefactored, one giant blob of DOM manipulation and absence of structure. In this class I will teach you practical tools to …
Switching to Test-Driven Development (TDD) on an existing project without tests presents special challenges. Code could be a tangled mess of dependencies that defeats the very concept of unit testing. Or somebody attempted TDD in the past and you have a test suite that needs to be fixed before any …
This short tutorial explains how to use Jasmine to test JavaScript code in your Rails applications. [youtube FWR4UqAhDkU]
Recently MetricFu, a ruby gem for creating many code metrics, added Hotspots. Now you can see where in your code you have problems at once. Wouldn’t you want to know if you have complex code that changes a lot in source control AND has bad coverage? This video shows you …
