A rubylearning.org Course

Testing Basics

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Objectives of this lesson:

You will be able to answer the following:

• What kinds of testing "levels" you know of?
• What are the differences between those levels?
• Explain TDD in your own words.
• Explain Unit Testing in your own words.
• Comment on Unit Testing == TDD.
• What are the "rules" (best-practices) for coding Unit Tests?

Top level course contents and prerequisites

Prerequisits

1. Ruby Core
2. gem
3. irb

Course Broad Outline

4. History behind Test::Unit and why is in Standard Library
5. ZenTest
6. flog/heckle - Windows is a problem, indeed
7. rubydoctest
8. test-spec/spec-unit

Remarks:

Change proposals that are active should be listed here.