Acceptance Testing

RoR Acceptance Testing: Very good article on Ruby on Rails acceptance and unit testing.

Acceptance Testing Andy Lindeman @alindeman RSpec Core Team Highgroover Levels of Testing Roughly speaking... Unit Tests Integration Tests Acceptance Tests Unit Tests Isolation Dependencies often mocked or stubbed No filesystem, network, database (Rails "unit" tests ) Programmer Tests Acceptance Tests End-to-end (as much as is feasible) No implementation details (black box) Often based on a user story Can be run locally or remotely Customer Tests A few quick examples... Unit Test describe BankAccount do specify "new accounts have a zero balance" do account = BankAccount.new expect(account.balance).to eq(BigDecimal("0.00")) end end Acceptance Test (Cucumber/Gherkin) As a depositor In order to safeguard my money I want to hold it in a bank account Given I am a depositor When I open a new bank account Then my balance is $0.00 Acceptance Test Given /I am a depositor/ do @user ...

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