2010-07-19_rails_tdd_week1
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This document outlines a curriculum for a course on efficient test-driven development (TDD) in Rails, detailing weekly topics such as testing strategies, TDD culture, API testing, and integration testing. The course emphasizes the economics of testing, the importance of testing for maintaining code quality, and includes structured exercises for practical application. It promotes active participation and collaboration among participants to foster a productive learning environment.
2010-07-19_rails_tdd_week1
- 1. Efficient Rails Test-Driven Development Wolfram Arnold www.rubyfocus.biz In collaboration with: Sarah Allen, BlazingCloud.net marakana.com
- 2. Class Outline Week #1 The economics of testing Testing in layers, design patterns Toolbox: RSpec with Rails RSpec & Models Week #2 A culture of testing: Why TDD? How to TDD? Testing & Data Dependencies Toolbox: Fixtures, Factories, Mocks & Stubs
- 3. Class Outline Week #3 Controller testing View, Helper, Routes Testing How much is enough? How much is too much? Week #4 Refactoring code & tests, custom matchers API Testing Remote data setup Cucumber for API testing & documentation
- 4. Class Outline Week #5 Integration Testing—when and how? Toolbox: Cucumber, Selenium & Friends Page Object Pattern Week #6 TDD—what next? BDD, Agile Process, XP → VDD: Value-Driven Development Advanced/Special Requests
- 5. What you can expect Presentation, Examples Answers to questions A range of material from current development practice Homework Fluidity & adaptability Fun
- 6. It works best, when... Active participation Try something new Focus Team Effort Pairing Utilizing the resources in class: TA's, participants Discussions in public Class Q&A Mailing list
- 7. Efficient Rails Test-Driven Development
- 8. Why “efficient” and “testing”? “Testing takes too much time.” “It's more efficient to test later.” “Testing is the responsibility of QA, not developers.” “It's not practical to test X.” Tests break when data changes. Tests break when design changes.
- 9. The Role of Testing Development without tests... fails to empower developers to efficiently take responsibility for quality of the code delivered makes collaboration harder build narrow silos of expertise instills fear & resistance to change makes documentation a chore stops being efficient very soon
- 10. TDD: Keeping cost of change low Cost per change without TDD with TDD Time
- 11. Why? Non-TDD Accumulates “technical debt” unchecked Removal of technical debt carries risk The more technical debt, the higher the risk Existing technical debt attracts more technical debt Like compound interest People are most likely to do what others did before them To break the pattern heroic discipline & coordination required
- 12. Testing in Layers Application, Browser UI Selenium RSpec Integration Test::Unit Integration Application, Server Cucumber, Webrat RSpec RSpec Views Helpers Views Helpers RSpec RSpec Test::Unit Functional Controller Routes Controller Routes RSpec Test::Unit Model Model
- 13. Cost of Testing Layers Application, Browser UI Application, Server Views Helpers Controller Routes Model Cost
- 14. Cost of Testing Relationship to data most Application, Browser UI removed Application, Server Views Helpers Controller Routes Model closest Cost
- 15. Best ROI for Testing Layers Application, Browser UI Application, Server Views Helpers Controller Routes Model Impact/Line of Test Code
- 16. TDD & Design Patterns Skinny Controller— ➢ Designed to move logic Fat Model from higher to lower DRY application layers named_scope ➢ Following design patterns makes testing Proxy Associations easier Validations ➢ Code written following ... TDD economics will naturally converge on these design patterns!
- 17. Structure of Tests Setup Expected value Actual value Verification: actual == expected? Teardown
- 18. Good Tests are... Compact Responsible for testing one concern only Fast DRY
- 19. RSpec Verifications should respond_to should be_nil → works with any ? method (so-called “predicates”) should be_valid should_not be_nil; should_not be_valid lambda {...}.should change(), {}, .from().to(), .by() should eql, ==, equal
- 20. RSpec Structure before, before(:each), before(:all) after, after(:each), after(:all) describe do...end, nested it do... end
- 21. Let's do some coding Demo
- 22. Models: What to test? Validation Rules Associations Any custom method Association Proxy Methods
- 23. Let's do some coding Exercise, but wait...
- 24. Test-First Teaching Pioneered by Sarah Allen Instructor writes tests Students write code What about writing tests?
- 25. Behavior-First Teaching Instructor specifies desired behavior in plain English like a user story Students write tests Students write code to make tests pass
- 26. Story Exercise #1 A Person object must have a first and last name. A Person object can construct a full name from the first and last name. A Person object has an optional middle name. A Person object returns a full name including, if present, the middle name.
- 27. RSpec ==, eql, equal obj.should == 5 5 == 5 obj.should eql(5) 5.eql 5 obj.should equal(5) 5.equal 5 Object Equality vs. Identity Use == eql, == compare values Unless you know you need something else equal, === compare objects, classes Warning! Do not use != with RSpec. Use should_not instead.
- 28. RSpec should change lambda { Person.create }.should change(Person, :count).by(1) lambda { @bob.addresses.create(:street => “...”) }.should change(@bob.addresses, :count).by(1) nd Warning: The 2 example is incorrect!
- 29. RSpec should change lambda { # code that causes a change }.should change(object, :method).by(difference) or should change(object, :method).from(initial).to(final) The object typically is a class, if not, be wary of reload!
- 30. should change with block lambda { # code that causes a change }.should change { expression }.by(difference) or should change { expression }.from(initial).to(final)
- 31. better with block lambda { @bob.addresses.create(:street => “...”) }.should change { @bob.addresses(true).count }.by(1)
- 32. Homework A Person should save correctly. A Person can have many Addresses. A Person's Address must have a street, city and zip. A Person's Address can have an optional country. If the country is left blank, it should default to “USA” prior to saving.
- 33. BizConf Aug 4-6, 2010 Amelia Island, FL Discount code: WOLF Rails & Web App Professionals, Entrepreneurs, for 43% off Consultants http://bizconf.org? Small group coupon=WOLF Network with Who's Who Organized by Obie Fernandez of Hashrocket Highlight: David Allen