CSC/ECE 517 Fall 2011/ch2 2e ad

Testing frameworks for Ruby

Introduction

This is an introduction to the subject.

Types of Ruby testing framework

1) TDD vs BDD vs Acceptance Testing (Include high level examples to distinguish them from each other) 2) Detail explanation about following testing framework: (a) Test:Unit (b) Shoulda (c) RSpec (d) Cucumber (e) Riot (f) Mini

Testing Framework Comparison

Examples go here [1] 1)Actual Code being tested (Intro of functionality) 2)Test:Unit testing code 3)Shoulda testing code 4)RSpec testing code 5)Cucumber testing code 6)Riot testing code 7)Mini testing code

Additional Testing Framework=

1) UI Testing Framework (a) Context 2)Addinal testing

Example code goes here

References

• [1] Shay Friedman A Mini-Review-Benchmark of Ruby’s Different Testing Frameworks

Note

There are many testing frameworks for Rails, but for this topic, I would like you to concentrate on testing frameworks for Ruby itself. Look up information on these frameworks, and describe their evolution.