Cucumber and you (or I, as it were)

Justin Harris jharris at redhat.com
Wed Jul 21 17:32:13 UTC 2010


----- "Devan Goodwin" <dgoodwin at rm-rf.ca> wrote:

> Are we ok with using rspec instead of cukes? Any objections?
> 
> If so, could we just start using it at this point, setup the little
> bit of infra required (run from buildr task, etc) and deal with
> existing cuke tests piecemeal over time? The lost time should be
> quite
> minimal and I'm finding it much quicker to test with anyhow. I would
> propose that we invest a little time in code reviews early on to make
> sure we're all on the same page.
> 
> Does this sound ok?

Sounds fine to me.

> 
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Bryan Kearney <bkearney at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> > On 07/21/2010 07:55 AM, Devan Goodwin wrote:
> >>
> >> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Bryan
> Kearney<bkearney at redhat.com>
> >>  wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On 07/19/2010 11:56 AM, Devan Goodwin wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> As before, my opinion is strongly that we are essentially
> re-inventing
> >>>> variables and namespaces because cuke has chopped out most
> everything
> >>>> we've ever known about organizing and re-using test code with
> classes,
> >>>> inheritance, fixtures, methods, and return values. I still can't
> >>>
> >>> Have you or anyone else  posted this to any cuke mailing list? Is
> this
> >>> the
> >>> way it is with Cuke, or how we are using it?
> >>>
> >>> -- bk
> >>>
> >>
> >> Got a little feedback in that thread, I do not think it is the way
> we
> >> are using cukes. Surely we could clean some things up but it looks
> >> like the core complaints I have are just the way it is.
> >>
> >>
> > I am concerned a bit about schedule, and I like the idea of
> external
> > functional tests. I would be open to changing this if the pain (read
> time)
> > is not too huge.
> >
> > -- bk
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Devan Goodwin <dgoodwin at rm-rf.ca>
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