On Friday, December 23, 2016 at 12:47:08 PM UTC-6, Stefan Adams wrote: > > I use the Mojo::Pg example Blog > <https://github.com/kraih/mojo-pg/tree/master/examples/blog> as a > boilerplate for almost every app that I write. It's soo awesome! There's > only one thing that I feel is missing... Unit tests. > > I would *like* to do unit tests but I don't think I do them properly. At > one point I was talking about using testing by making blog posts and then > checking that the blog post was created and visible on the website -- all > by UserAgent calls. @jberger very kindly informed me that this wasn't such > a good way to unit test. I was being *too* specific, I think. >
Being specific is just fine. IIRC I was cautioning against your tests being too smart. Things like generating tests and test results rather than copying and pasting (usually with slight differences between tests). In your code DRY and clever are helpful, in tests it can mean that you aren't sure what the actual test is testing (since it relies on code which ITSELF might be broken to generate the test). As to specificity, there are several levels which are normally used. Unit tests are a single class or method or function ... well, a single unit. These are tested in isolation to ensure they work. This might involve mocking out other pieces. This is call, unit testing. Then when you put those units together, sometimes with outside systems like databases, they are called integration tests. When testing a series of functionalities in a more real-world use case they are called functional or end-to-end tests. There can even be larger scope tests but they usually involve corporate process (UAT, acceptance, etc). Anyway, don't let specificity stop you. > > So, what would a good and complete test suite look like for Mojo::Pg > Blog? I'd love to see this t/ getting added to the example Blog in the > main Git repo. > > I'd be happy to write the tests (I think I'm OK at *writing* tests), if > someone could help with letting me know *what* should be tested. > > Thanks! > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Mojolicious" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mojolicious+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to mojolicious@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/mojolicious. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
