Software Testing
Articles on Software Testing
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Using QUnit with CoffeeScript
QUnit is a unit testing framework for JavaScript, from the jQuery project. Earlier this week I wrote about how I chose it over Jasmine for my current project. This article explains how I setup QUnit to test my CoffeeScript, along with the Sinon mocking/stubbing library.
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QUnit or Jasmine?
My thoughts on the pros and cons of Jasmine and QUnit for testing CoffeeScript in Rails 3.2, and the criteria I used to choose between them.
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Testing Rails with Rack::Test
The biggest news in Rails 2.3 is its support for Rack, the WSGI inspired Ruby web server interface. Of all the Rack goodness that has come along lately, the one that has me the most excited is Bryan Helmkamp's Rack::Test library, of which Bryan said "Basically, I extracted Merb’s request helper code into a small, reusable, framework agnostic library."
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Integration Testing for Multiple Web Applications
I've recently been developing a Rails app that relies on a database that is maintained by another team as part of a different application. As you can imagine, unexpected changes to the database schema can bring our Rails app to it's knees if they're deployed to the live server before our application is updated.
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Testing Merb controllers with RSpec
I've been trying out Merb recently, and I'm liking it. However, I've spent a lot of time stumbling around the interweb looking for examples of what I've been trying to achieve. So far I've been coming up short. The Merb API docs are good, but you can't beat a good example.
