A rubylearning.org Course

Testing Basics

Objectives of this lesson:

You will be able to answer the following:

What kinds of testing "levels" you know of?
What are the differences between those levels?
Explain TDD in your own words.
Explain Unit Testing in your own words.
Comment on Unit Testing == TDD.
What are the "rules" (best-practices) for coding Unit Tests?

Top level course contents and prerequisites

Prerequisits

Ruby Core
gem
irb

Course Broad Outline

History behind Test::Unit and why is in Standard Library
ZenTest
flog/heckle - Windows is a problem, indeed
rubydoctest
test-spec/spec-unit

Remarks:

Change proposals that are active should be listed here.

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