Comments on: RailsConf Panel: Testing Rails apps with Mike Clark http://metaatem.net/2006/06/24/railsconf-panel-testing-rails-apps-with-mike-clark its a mirror - get it? Erik Kastner's blog. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:47:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: The most important things I learned about Rails development from RailsConf and RailsDay at Meta | ateM http://metaatem.net/2006/06/24/railsconf-panel-testing-rails-apps-with-mike-clark#comment-1676 The most important things I learned about Rails development from RailsConf and RailsDay at Meta | ateM Wed, 28 Jun 2006 14:29:33 +0000 http://metaatem.net/2006/06/24/railsconf-panel-testing-rails-apps-with-mike-clark#comment-1676 [...] Testing isn’t scary! This was HUGE for me. I never tested because I thought it was hard and scary. During my RailsDay project (My one goal), I decided to just go for it with testing. You know what I found? It’s EASY. That plus Mike Clark’s Panel really taught me not only the easy of testing, but the utility. Here’s a side story, I just moved my app from Text Drive to my local server. It wasn’t working at all, so I decided to give my out of date tests a run (I gave up TDD at about 7pm on RailsDay), a LOT of them failed. It took some time to get them running, but now it works better. And each bug report that goes in gets a test case now. [...] [...] Testing isn’t scary! This was HUGE for me. I never tested because I thought it was hard and scary. During my RailsDay project (My one goal), I decided to just go for it with testing. You know what I found? It’s EASY. That plus Mike Clark’s Panel really taught me not only the easy of testing, but the utility. Here’s a side story, I just moved my app from Text Drive to my local server. It wasn’t working at all, so I decided to give my out of date tests a run (I gave up TDD at about 7pm on RailsDay), a LOT of them failed. It took some time to get them running, but now it works better. And each bug report that goes in gets a test case now. [...]

]]> By: Manfred Stienstra http://metaatem.net/2006/06/24/railsconf-panel-testing-rails-apps-with-mike-clark#comment-1647 Manfred Stienstra Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:30:01 +0000 http://metaatem.net/2006/06/24/railsconf-panel-testing-rails-apps-with-mike-clark#comment-1647 It's kind of stupid to test existing validations, that's just double testing the framework. I don't think people should use this in examples, it can be really confusing to people new to testing. It’s kind of stupid to test existing validations, that’s just double testing the framework. I don’t think people should use this in examples, it can be really confusing to people new to testing.

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