Testing your Rails Application

The Ruby on Rails framework has unit and functional testing baked right in. In this talk we'll see how easy it is to get started with testing in Rails, and we'll explore jut how deep the testing support goes.

We'll look at the basics: unit testing models and functional testing views and controllers. But we'll dig deeper, looking at the supplied mock objects and seeing how easy it is to add our own. We'll also investigate test fixtures, using them to generate both static and dnamic test data. Finally, we'll have a quick look at performance testing.

About Dave Thomas

Dave Thomas is recognized internationally as an expert who develops high-quality software–accurate and highly flexible systems. He helped write the now-famous Agile Manifesto, and regularly speak on new ways of producing software. He is the author of six books, including the best selling The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master (Addison-Wesley) and Programming Ruby: A Pragmatic Programmer's Guide (Pragmatic Bookshelf).

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