Episode 275: 269 RR Testing

Ruby Rogues

• Episode: Episode 275: 269 RR Testing
• Website: Ruby Rogues
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• Duration: 00:59:49
• Published: 2016-07-20 15:00

Rails Remote Conf

02:07 - Testing

07:28 - Adding Tests Later; When is the test useful?

• TDD (Test-driven Development)

14:35 - Testing the Happy Path

16:48 - Writing Tests First

18:53 - Sharing Code

• Larry Wall: Three Virtues

27:34 - Testing Error Messages

29:04 - External vs Mocking/Stubbing

34:11 - Exploratory Tests and Characterization Tests

• Sunk Cost Fallacy
• Katrina Owen: Therapeutic Refactoring

39:07 - Refactoring

47:22 - Mocking and Stubbing (Cont’d)

• Justin Searls: To Mock or Not to Mock @ SCNA 2012
• Dependency Injection
  • Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby by Sandi Metz
• Spies

Picks

• How American Politics Went Insane (Jessica)
• Alex Kitchens’ Minecraft Tweet (Sam)
• The "Is It a DSL or an API?" Ten Question Checklist (Sam)
• Transmit (Chuck)
• Zoom (Chuck)
• Rails Remote Conf (Chuck)