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Ruby on Rails Testing Tools provide a wide selection of capabilities for writing and running tests with various degrees of automation.
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Code Between Lines: A RSpec matcher for ActiveRecord validation
Handy matchers to make checking for Active Record errors in specs even easier.
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Be Dee Dee and Me
Nice general overview of Behavior Driven Development (BDD), the tools available (test/spec, rSpec), and then an introduction to actually using test/spec within your code.
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autotest-rails
Autotest runs continuously and watches for files to change (when you save). It then runs any associated tests automatically.
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Autotest with verbose flag on
Hints on how to configure ZenTest’s autotest to be less verbose on various messages and other configuration suggestions.
- rcov Rake Task
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Ruby on Rails: RSpec Tutorial
A series of articles introducing Behavior Driven Development and RSpec. Provides an overview, basic examples, discussion about Mock Objects, and advanced tips.
- Selenium on Rails
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- Watir - Overview
Watir is a simple open-source library for automating web browsers. It allows you to write tests that are easy to read and easy to maintain. It is optimized for simplicity and flexibility. - Bleak House
Memory leak detection - APIdoc
Rails Doc morphed into APIdock. Collects various versions of Rails, Ruby, and Rspec documentation into one place. - test/spec Official Documentation
test/spec layers an RSpec-inspired interface on top of Test::Unit, so you can mix TDD and BDD (Behavior-Driven Development). - test/spec RubyForge Home Page
Official RubyForge home page for project.
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Software (4)
- Selenium on Rails
Plugin that simplifies the use of Selenium for testing Rails applications. - ZenTest: Automated test scaffolding for Ruby
The ZenTest collection includes a full test coverage suite of tools (including the extremely useful autotest). - tarantula
Ruby on Rails plugin that crawls your site, exercising all the URLs and checking things as it crawls along. - eigenclass - rcov: code coverage for Ruby
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