Mindtonic

Webrat:

• http://github.com/brynary/webrat/tree/master
• http://gitrdoc.com/brynary/webrat/tree/master
• http://codese.wordpress.com/2009/02/05/using-shoulda-webrat-to-write-integration-tests-for-rails/
• http://blog.bitmacro.com/2008/11/14/shoulda-factory_girl-webrat

Integration Testing:

• http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2006/3/9/integration-testing-in-rails-1-1
• http://www.martinfowler.com/articles/continuousIntegration.html
• http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/Integration/Session.html
• http://locomotivation.squeejee.com/post/109227509/ruby-on-rails-integration-testing-with-integrity
• http://ajaxonrails.wordpress.com/2006/11/02/integration-testing-in-ruby-on-rails-how-to-maintain-sessions-while-testing-in-rails/
• http://bhanoo.blogspot.com/2007/09/rails-integration-testing.html
• http://blog.danielwellman.com/2008/06/writing-rails-integration-tests-with-webrat.html
• http://6brand.com/rails-integration-testing-how-to-learn.html

One thing I liked about rspec was the ability to define tests that you had not yet written. That way you could remind yourself when running the test suite that there are things still to do. Previously in Shoulda, I have been writing these kinds of tests in all caps and using “assert false” to trigger failure and remind me of future work. Turns out there is a nifty way to do it with Shoulda. (I should have guessed there would be!)

should_eventually "do something"

#or just leave off the block
should "do something"

Thanks to BlenderBox for bringing this to my attention while researching Shoulda integration testing.

I have been doing a lot for work with testing and development in Ruby. This has lead me to want to find an option to write Unit Tests for my own PHP based Content Management System, Shabda. It would be a very wise move to make sure that the core system files function exactly as expected. I will update this blog post as I go along.

My research has yielded two possible testing options:

• PHPUnit
• SimpleTest

SimpleTest

Other blogs with more information: http://vailo.wordpress.com/2008/07/03/php-unit-test-test-driven-development/