Comments on: A Real Testing Example

By: Pathfinder Development | Software Developers | Blogs | Real Testing Example, Part Two

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:45:30 +0000

[...] with upward of two people saying nice things about last week’s post, I’ve decided to keep going with part two of a look at some real testing [...]

By: Noel Rappin

Noel Rappin — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:10:26 +0000

John — thanks, my Regex skills are not the best, and this will help me a lot.

By: John Miller

John Miller — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:12:33 +0000

In the interest of clean code when writing the Regular Expression for a step:

1) The use of (?:foo|bar) to group but not capture will keep things like ‘plural’ or ‘verb’ from getting in the way.

2) Using (.*) is a recipe for conflicting steps. If you want to capture a number (integer) use (\d+); a single word (\w*). Most plurals can be formed by adding ‘s?’. e.g /(\d+) messages?/ will capture an integer and match “1 message” and “5 messages.”

By: Eric Litwin

Eric Litwin — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 05:34:11 +0000

Thanks for posting this. It’s always interesting to learn how others balance the ratio of Cucumber to RSpec (controller/model/view) testing – it’s something I’m always questioning in my projects.

This has also convinced me that my Cucumber features tend to be a bit to explicit, and that I should favor the implicit style a bit more going forward.

By: Piotr Sarnacki

Piotr Sarnacki — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:15:51 +0000

Great post! Keep going, it’s hard to find good real world examples of code with tests and description