Comments on: Testing my patience. A skeptic’s thoughts on beginning to write tests http://wagaman.org/2009/testing-my-patience-a-skeptics-thoughts-on-beginning-to-write-tests/ thoughts, theories, theology, and the rest Tue, 18 May 2010 12:50:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Jon Kruger http://wagaman.org/2009/testing-my-patience-a-skeptics-thoughts-on-beginning-to-write-tests/comment-page-1/#comment-30742 Jon Kruger Sun, 01 Feb 2009 13:14:01 +0000 http://wagaman.org/?p=220#comment-30742 Keep it up! It does seem a little backwards at first but once you get it you won't know how you ever wrote code the other way. About the test methods with one or two lines of code... many times you'll have a bunch of setup code for your tests that runs before each test in a group (don't know what the RSpec equivalent is for this, might be something like "before_each"). So that method may have a lot of code in it, and then your actual test methods are just a couple lines (do something, then verify something). Keep it up! It does seem a little backwards at first but once you get it you won’t know how you ever wrote code the other way.

About the test methods with one or two lines of code… many times you’ll have a bunch of setup code for your tests that runs before each test in a group (don’t know what the RSpec equivalent is for this, might be something like “before_each”). So that method may have a lot of code in it, and then your actual test methods are just a couple lines (do something, then verify something).

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