Everyday Rails Testing with RSpec

Preface to this edition

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction

1. Confident testing
2. Why RSpec?
3. Who should read this book
4. My testing philosophy
5. How the book is organized
6. Downloading the sample code
7. Code conventions
8. Discussion and errata
9. A note about gem versions
10. A note about styling
11. About the sample application

2. Setting up RSpec

1. Dependencies
2. Test database
3. RSpec configuration
4. The rspec binstub
5. Try it out!
6. Summary
7. Exercises

3. Model specs

1. Anatomy of a model spec
2. Creating a model spec
3. The RSpec syntax
4. Testing validations
5. Testing instance methods
6. Testing class methods and scopes
7. Testing all the cases
8. More about matchers
9. Summary
10. Exercises

4. DRY enough specs

1. Describing contexts in RSpec
2. DRYer test setup and teardown
3. How DRY is too DRY?
4. Summary
5. Exercises

5. Creating meaningful test data

1. Factories or fixtures?
2. Installing factory_bot
3. Adding factories to the application
4. Generating unique data with sequences
5. Associations in factories
6. Using factories safely
7. Summary
8. Exercises

6. Testing controllers

1. Basic request specs
2. Testing user authentication
3. Testing user authorization
4. Testing user input
5. Summary
6. Exercises

7. Next level request specs

1. Testing invalid user input
2. Simplifying test data with factory_bot traits
3. Testing non-HTML requests and responses
4. Summary
5. Exercises

8. Testing the user interface with system specs

1. Why system specs?
2. System spec dependencies
3. A basic system spec
4. Simulating browser interactions with Capybara
5. Debugging system specs
6. Testing JavaScript interactions
7. System testing strategies
8. Summary
9. Exercises

9. More DRY testing techniques

1. Support modules
2. Lazy-loading with let
3. Shared contexts
4. Custom matchers
5. Aggregating failures
6. Summary
7. Exercise

10. Testing in isolation

1. Mocks, stubs, doubles, fakes, and spies, defined
2. Testing edge cases with mocks
3. Simulating external systems
4. Recording HTTP transactions with VCR
5. Mocking methods in factories
6. When mocking goes too far
7. Summary
8. Exercises

11. Testing the rest

1. Testing file uploads
2. Testing email delivery
3. Testing background jobs
4. Measuring test coverage
5. Summary
6. Exercises

12. Toward test-driven development

1. Requirements
2. Top-down testing
3. Digging for clues
4. Dropping a level
5. Summary
6. Excercises

13. Parting advice

1. Practice testing the small things
2. Be aware of what you’re doing
3. Short spikes are OK
4. Write a little, test a little is also OK
5. Try to write integration specs first
6. Make time for testing
7. Keep it simple
8. Don’t revert to old habits!
9. Use your tests to make your code better
10. Sell others on the benefits of automated testing
11. Keep practicing
12. Goodbye, for now

About Everyday Rails

About the author

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