On Jan 30, 10:35 am, Ravi Shankar <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am new to the RSpec, I have many questions related to the RSpec. > > 1. Why one should use RSpec instead of other testing technique
RSpec is designed for Behavior Driven Development, whereas many testing tools are designed for Test Driven Development or even post- development testing. So basically, your question could be rephrased as "What are the benefits of Behavior Driven Development?" Here are a few places to look for more introductory material: http://behaviour-driven.org/Introduction http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavior_Driven_Development > 2. Which are the best tools than RSpec Many people use RSpec with Cucumber. In fact, the RSpec book (linked below) talks about how to use both of them for effective behavior driven development. It's important to remember that tools cannot be measured on an abstract, absolute scale. (i.e. There is no *best* tool because some tools were designed to do different things.) RSpec is often compared to Ruby's built-in unit testing framework (Test::Unit), and many people like the shoulda macros that work with either RSpec or Test::Unit. RSpec book: http://www.pragprog.com/titles/achbd/the-rspec-book Test::Unit: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ruby_Programming/Unit_testing Shoulda macros: http://github.com/thoughtbot/shoulda > 3. Where can i get RSpec demo There are several demos available online. Here's a demo that shows RSpec, Test::Unit, and Cucumber using Ruby on Rails: http://github.com/marcoow/rspec-demo There's also a lengthy introduction to RSpec available on PeepCode: http://peepcode.com/products/rspec-basics I hope that helps! > -- > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/. > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-us...@rubyforge.orghttp://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
