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I have never been sold on cucumber, it just seems like testing
mastrubation.<br>
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Unit testing and some integration testing yes but much more than
that is it becomes and end to itself, testing for the sake of
writing tests.<br>
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James.<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 25/07/14 11:16, James Turley wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">It's an interesting approach. I too have been
suspicious of cucumber in terms of adding an extra dependency
and an extra stage to the testing process. Readability for
non-technical people is not a problem I've faced directly,
though.
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<div>I guess if you did want to optimise for code reuse, you
could abstract common factory/setup methods into a module and
include that?</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Joel
Chippindale <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:joel.chippindale@futurelearn.com"
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<div dir="ltr">We recently blogged about how, at
FutureLearn, we write readable feature tests with RSpec*,
see <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://about.futurelearn.com/blog/how-we-write-readable-feature-tests-with-rspec/"
target="_blank">https://about.futurelearn.com/blog/how-we-write-readable-feature-tests-with-rspec/</a>,
and it made me wonder how common this approach was.
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<div>Are any of you using this approach already? If so,
how are you finding it?</div>
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<div>J.<br>
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<div>* Hat tip to the developers at Econsultancy who
introduced me to this way of using RSpec.</div>
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