https://github.com/jamesmartin/cukes_sinatra_test

Example of end-to-end integration testing of a Sinatra app with Cukes, Capybara and Mechanize
https://github.com/jamesmartin/cukes_sinatra_test

Last synced: 17 days ago
JSON representation

Example of end-to-end integration testing of a Sinatra app with Cukes, Capybara and Mechanize

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/jamesmartin/cukes_sinatra_test
• Owner: jamesmartin
• Created: 2010-09-08T06:08:24.000Z (over 14 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2010-09-20T06:58:33.000Z (over 14 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-27T04:49:36.227Z (about 2 months ago)
• Language: Ruby
• Homepage:
• Size: 105 KB
• Stars: 2
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.textile

Awesome Lists containing this project

README

        
h1. What!?

This is a living example project that I'm using to experiment with some newish tools and techniques. 

The idea is inspired by the book "Growing Object Oriented Software Guided by Tests":http://growing-object-oriented-software.com/, by Freeman and Pryce, which describes the concept of a 'Walking Skeleton' application. 

The example is a web-application (as fashion dictates), which aggregates data from a certain 'bird-like' social network. 

h2. The Walking Skeleton

The walking skeleton is supposed to be the first thing that you do when starting a new project. It cuts through the vertical slices of your technology stack, forcing you to answer a lot of the really tough questions that normally don't get addressed until it's time to bolt the system together and deploy at the end of a project.  

The challenges in this project are to build our end-to-end acceptance tests in such a way that we exercise the entire stack (as far as possible), from the User's browser, through the Rack/Sinatra environments, authorize with our social network (using OAuth) and then return the results. Obviously we don't want to have any insidious dependencies on things like _the Internet_, in our tests. 

h2. Components

I'm learning Ruby this year, so it seemed only fitting to attempt to do something in this language.

The testing framework consists of acceptance tests written in "Cucumber":http://cukes.info, a test browser is driven by "Capybara":http://github.com/jnicklas/capybara and "Mechanize":http://mechanize.rubyforge.org/mechanize and I've created a _fake social network_, using an extremely simple Sinatra application[1].

The application is a "Sinatra":http://github.com/sinatra/sinatra application, which will eventually (if I ever get it working) be deployed on "Heroku":http://heroku.com

fn1. The fake social network will become more complex as time goes by, as I learn the full horrors of the OAuth dance!