Showing 22 videos tagged with testing

SD Ruby - Episode 046: RSpec in 15 minutes

Cliff Rhyne describes in 15 minutes what it takes to get up and running with RSpec. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

David Brady: TourBus

TourBus is an app that does web testing on real-world servers. It combines the flexibility and expressiveness of a functional web test suite, the statefulness and intelligence of a regression test suite, and the concurrency of a load/stress/bench suite. In short, it can test your web application from end to end, and it can do it 100 times at once concurrently. Imagine if someone harnessed the power of a DDoS botnet for good.

Bryan Liles: TATFT, The Layman's Guide to Getting It Right The First Time

TATFT, The Layman's Guide to Getting It Right The First Time You've heard it a million times, "TATFT". So, how do you go from being someone who wants to test, to someone who actually tests all the time? Do you need a spiritual guide who can show you the intricacies of testing, and how it can make your code better? If so, you need "TATFT, the laymen's guide to getting it right the first time." In this talk, I will go from evangelizing testing, to actually showing methods for making sure your... View More

Jon Larkowski: Testing as Communication, Real-World Techniques

Testing as Communication, Real-World Techniques This session covers how Hashrocket, an experienced Ruby on Rails consultancy, uses a wide range of real-world testing techniques and agile methodologies every day to satisfy client customer requirements. It will describe the life cycle of our testing workflow, from story capture to customer acceptance. This includes an overview of: fine-grained requirements gathering in "user story" form; how we manage stories and communicate transparently with... View More

Railscast - Episode 60: Testing without Fixtures

00:09:49 railscasts.com
Tests which rely heavily on fixtures are brittle and can be difficult to maintain. This episode will show a couple techniques for creating tests which don't use fixtures.

Railscast - Episode 71: Testing Controllers with RSpec

00:11:17 railscasts.com
Controllers are tricky to test, and there's no perfect way to do it. In this episode you will see how I test controllers, and my reasoning behind it.

Railscast - Episode 116: Selenium

00:09:30 railscasts.com
Selenium is a great way to test your app automatically through a browser. See how it works in this episode.

Railscast - Episode 155: Beginning with Cucumber

00:15:22 railscasts.com
Cucumber is a high-level testing framework. In this episode we will create a new Rails application from scratch using behavior driven development.

Railscast - Episode 156: Webrat

00:07:39 railscasts.com
If you prefer writing integration tests in ruby instead of Cucumber's plain english, consider interacting with Webrat directly as I show in this episode.

Railscast - Episode 157: RSpec Matchers & Macros

00:18:09 railscasts.com
You can improve the readability and remove duplication in RSpec by adding matchers and macros. Learn how in this episode.