269 RR Testing

Rails Remote Conf 02:07 - Testing07:28 - Adding Tests Later; When is the test useful?

• TDD (Test-driven Development)

14:35 - Testing the Happy Path16:48 - Writing Tests First18:53 - Sharing Code

• Larry Wall: Three Virtues

27:34 - Testing Error Messages29:04 - External vs Mocking/Stubbing34:11 - Exploratory Tests and Characterization Tests

• Sunk Cost Fallacy
• Katrina Owen: Therapeutic Refactoring

39:07 - Refactoring47:22 - 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

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• Zoom (Chuck)
• Rails Remote Conf (Chuck)

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