Testing is funA developer's perspective

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Why something is fun?

Unit, functional and Acceptance

testing – fun with Ruby on Rails

Quality Tests

Testers Vs. Developers: Code War

Testers + Developers = Quality Product

Fun is like beauty - it's in the eyes of the beholder

Why something is fun?

1. Why something is fun?

Problem solving

Pattern recognition

Creativity and lateral thinking

My Nephews and Nieces

1. Why something is fun?

Why a kid hate something?

1. Why something is fun?

Feeling of burden and boredom

Patience test

Tough to do

Why a kid like something?

1. Why something is fun?

Curiosity and involvement

Sense of accomplishment

Easy to do and easy to iterate

My Perspective

1. Why something is fun?

No, testing is not fun,

WHEN

Workbench-mess

Slow Tests

This works on my development box!

1. Why something is fun?

Clean Workbench

Run tests – every 30 secs!

Use right tools and right test data

1. Why something is fun?

Yes, I want to do it

WHEN

Unit, functional and Acceptance testing –

fun with Ruby on Rails

2. Unit, functional and Acceptance testing - fun with Ruby on Rails

(Development + Testing) Approach ?

Bottom-up (Inside-out) Top-down (Outside-in)

2. Unit, functional and Acceptance testing - fun with Ruby on Rails

Cucumber & RSpec

Outside-in approach

Only write what is meaningful

Close interaction of PO and developer

BDD

TDDATDD

DeveloperBA/PO

2. Unit, functional and Acceptance testing - fun with Ruby on Rails

Cucumber example

2. Unit, functional and Acceptance testing - fun with Ruby on Rails

Outside-in

2. Unit, functional and Acceptance testing - fun with Ruby on Rails

Given

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When

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Then

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Pre-requisite

(masked data, mock, Stub)

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Action

(invoke method)

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Validate output

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ScenarioStep 1

ControllerStep 4

ModelStep 5

ViewStep 3

StepsStep 2

Tests with guard

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Courtesy: https://github.com/visionmedia/git-extras

Patience test with cucumber100 tests & 1 sprint … a trivial example

Quality tests

Team testing timeWith friends and family

Metric Fu

3. Quality tests

Reek

3. Quality tests

Rcov

3. Quality tests

Flog

3. Quality tests

Easy to understand and easy to

follow steps are fun

With checks on code and code

quality, developer can have

sound sleep

ATDD, TDD and

BDD, DDD, anyother DD :

just concepts

development and testing

together is fun!

https://joind.in/6023

https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber/wiki/

http://rspec.info/

http://www.thewebsqueeze.com/web-design-articles/the-

mac-ruby-developers-toolkit-25-essential-apps.html

http://guides.rubyonrails.org/testing.html

http://metric-fu.rubyforge.org/

http://www.julianhermida.com/algoma/scotlteachingreso

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