Two Articles on Testing in Ruby on Rails

Daniel Butler — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 15:42:00 -0400

Kevin Olbrich has announced a series of articles about the “dark art” of testing in Ruby on Rails. He writes,

Since the existing literature on the topic is a bit sparse, I have written up a couple of brief articles on testing strategies for Rails.

The first one is on the usefulness of Positive and Negative Controls, and the other is a simple way to make sure you are working with valid or invalid objects in your tests.

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Article: Valid and Invalid Data
Article: Positive and Negative Controls

James Edward Grey II on Unit Testing

Daniel Butler — Wed, 10 May 2006 18:46:00 -0400

James Edward Grey II, creator of The Ruby Quiz, weekly programming challenge for Ruby programmers, writes a compelling article about unit testing in The Power of Tests: Unit Testers Get More Chicks. Unit Testing, he claims, “is the single best change a programmer can make in their day to day routine.”

Read on for a summary of the reasons …

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Two Articles on Testing in Ruby on Rails

James Edward Grey II on Unit Testing