OSS E1852.rb

This wiki page is for the description of changes made under E1852 OSS assignment for Fall 2018, CSC/ECE 517

Background

Expertiza is an open source web-based peer review system developed and maintained by students and faculty members at North Carolina State University. Features of Expertiza enable students to work collaboratively in teams on course projects and assignments.

Problem

There are not enough unit tests for the Participant model of Expertiza. Current path coverage of participant.rb is only 36.08%.

Work to be done

• Write unit test using Rspec

• Achieve path coverage more than 90%

• Achieve as high branch coverage

Modified Files

• spec/models/particpant_spec.rb

Unit Test Description

Unit Tests are implemented to ensure proper independence and desired functionality of methods in a model. Unit Testing is an essential component for the following strategies:

• Test Driven Development(TDD), where unit tests are used to drive the development of a product.
• Behavior Driven Development(BDD), which augments test driven development through the application of principles such as "Five Why's" and "Outside In" to identify and implement behaviors that are directly beneficial to the outcome of the product.

In this project, we are using RSpec testing models to achieve behavior driven development.

Participant Unit Test

The following factories were generated to assist in the testing of the Participant model.

let(:user) { 
	build( :student, id: 1, name: 'no name', fullname: 'no one') }
  let(:team) {	
	build( :assignment_team, id: 1, name: 'myTeam' ) }
  let(:team_user) { 
	build( :team_user, id: 1, user: user, team: team) }

  let(:topic){ build( :topic ) }

  let(:participant) {
	build(:participant,
	user: build( :student, name: "Jane", fullname: "Doe, Jane", id: 1 ) ) }
  let(:participant2) { 
	build(:participant, 
	user: build( :student, name: "John", fullname: "Doe, John", id: 2 ) ) }
  let(:participant3) { 
	build(:participant, can_review: false, 
	user: build(:student, name: "King", fullname: "Titan, King", id: 3 ) ) }

  let(:assignment) { build(:assignment, id: 1, name: 'no assgt') }

Methods tested in participant model:

• team

• response : This method returns the response associated with the perticular participant. we use mock method to simulate return of the response from the participant response_map

describe '#response' do
    it 'Returns the responses that are associated with this participant' do
      allow( participant ).to receive( :responses ).and_return( response )
      expect( participant.responses ).to eq( response )
    end
  end

• name: Returns the name of the participant

describe "#name" do
    it "returns the name of the user" do
      expect( participant.name ).to eq( "Jane" )
    end
  end

• fullname : Returns the full name of the participant

describe "#fullname" do
    it "returns the full name of the user" do
      expect( participant.fullname ).to eq( "Doe, Jane" )
    end
  end

• handle : Returns handle of the participant

describe '#handle' do
    it 'returns the handle of the participant' do
      expect( participant.handle( nil ) ).to eq( "handle" )
    end

• delete: It deletes the participant if the participant doesn't have any association adn value of "force" is nil else it will raise an exception

describe '#delete' do
    it 'deletes a participant if no associations exist and force is nil' do
      expect( participant.delete( nil ) ).to eq( participant )
    end
    it 'deletes a participant if no associations exist and force is true' do
      expect( participant.delete( true ) ).to eq( participant )
    end
    it 'deletes a participant if associations exist and force is true' do
      allow( participant ).to receive( :team ).and_return( team )
      expect( participant.delete( true ) ).to eq( participant )
    end
    it 'deletes a participant if associations exist and force is true' do
      allow( participant ).to receive( :team ).and_return( team )
      allow( team ).to receive( :teams_users ).and_return( length: 1 )
      expect( participant.delete( true ) ).to eq( participant )
    end
    it 'raises execption when trying to delect participant where associations exists and force is nil' do
      allow( participant ).to receive( :team ).and_return( team )
      expect{ participant.delete( nil ) }.to raise_error.with_message("Associations exist for this participant.")
    end
  end

• force_delete: This method is called inside the delete method . coverage for this is handled in delete method. hence there is not explicit cases are written.
• topic_name: Retunrs the topic name associated with the participant

describe '#topic_name' do
    it 'returns the topic name associated with the participant topic name is nil' do
      expect( participant.topic_name ).to eq( '<center>—</center>' )
    end
    it 'returns the topic name associated with the participant topic name has value' do
      allow( participant ).to receive( :topic ).and_return( topic )
      expect( participant.topic_name ).to eq( "Hello world!" )   
    end
  end

• able_to_review: check the review rights of the participant

describe '#able_to_review' do
    it '#able_to_review when can_review is true' do
      expect(participant.able_to_review).to eq(true)
    end
  end

  describe '#able_to_review' do
    it '#able_to_review when can_review is false' do
      expect(participant3.able_to_review).to eq(false)
    end
  end

• email: sends an email to participant

describe '#email' do
    it 'sends an email to the participant' do
      expect { participant.email("Missing 'pw'", "Missing 'home_page'") }.to change {
		ActionMailer::Base.deliveries.count }.by(1)
    end
  end

• score

• get_permissions:Returns the permission of various users such as participant , reader, reviewer, submitter

describe '#get_permissions' do
    it 'returns the permissions of participant' do
      expect( Participant.get_permissions( 'participant' ) ).to contain_exactly(
		[ :can_submit, true ], [ :can_review, true ], [ :can_take_quiz, true ] )
    end
    it 'returns the permissions of reader' do
      expect( Participant.get_permissions( 'reader' ) ).to contain_exactly(
		[ :can_submit, false ], [ :can_review, true ], [ :can_take_quiz, true ] )
    end
    it 'returns the permissions of reviewer' do
      expect( Participant.get_permissions( 'reviewer' ) ).to contain_exactly(
		[ :can_submit, false ], [ :can_review, true ], [ :can_take_quiz, false ] )
    end
    it 'returns the permissions of submitter' do
      expect(Participant.get_permissions('submitter')).to contain_exactly(
		[:can_submit, true], [:can_review, false], [:can_take_quiz, false] )
    end
  end

• get_authorization: Returns the authorization role based on the access rights (can_submit,can_review,can_take_quiz).

describe '#get_authorization' do
    it 'returns participant when no arguments are pasted' do
      expect( Participant.get_authorization( nil, nil, nil ) ).to eq( 'participant' )
    end
    it 'returns reader when no arguments are pasted' do
      expect( Participant.get_authorization( false, true, true ) ).to eq( 'reader' )
    end
    it 'returns submitter when no arguments are pasted' do
      expect( Participant.get_authorization( true, false, false ) ).to eq( 'submitter' )
    end
    it 'returns reviewer when no arguments are pasted' do
      expect( Participant.get_authorization( false, true, false ) ).to eq( 'reviewer' )
    end
  end

• sort_by_name: Returns the sorted participants name.

describe '#sort_by_name' do
    it 'returns a sorted list of participants alphabetical by name' do
      unsorted = [ participant3, participant, participant2 ]
      sorted = [ participant, participant2, participant3  ]
      expect( Participant.sort_by_name( unsorted ) ).to eq( sorted )
    end
  end

Running the Tests

To run the test run below command in terminal

 rspec spec/models/participant_spec.rb

External links

• https://github.com/carmenbentley/expertiza

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