[LRUG] A question on DRYness on testing methods that get / set state

[James Cumming]

Chris, do you know of any good articles / blogs on this?

cheers

 
James Cumming, CFA
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 From: Chris Parsons <chris.p at rsons.org>
To: London Ruby Users Group <chat at lists.lrug.org> 
Sent: Wednesday, 23 November 2011, 10:42
Subject: Re: [LRUG] A question on DRYness on testing methods that get / set state
 



On 23 Nov 2011, at 10:28, James Cumming wrote:


>
>> Incidentally, I was listening to an interesting podcast interview with
>> Gary Bernhardt yesterday.  Among other things, it touched on different
>> approaches to testing; might be a good start to further exploration.
>> http://www.engineyard.com/podcast/s01e40-gary-bernhardt
>
>
>
>Interesting interview this was. Has anyone used classes in the lib folder extensively as Gary suggests? How have you found it? 
>
>I can think of a few of my projects where this make sense and hopefully speed up autotest.

Yes, I do this extensively these days (e-petitions whole searching infrastructure was built in lib).

It has a few big advantages: one of which is faster tests, but also it helps you to depend on your framework less and improve design through reducing collaborators.

Thanks
Chris

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