[ANN] view_test 0.9.0

zdennis · August 24, 2007, 6:39pm

view_test is a similar implementation of rspec’s controller and view
specs for test/unit.

It allows you to migrate existing tests one test at a time to create
simpler functional tests
by extracting out all of the view assertions into their own view_test.

Check it out at http://www.continuousthinking.com/tags/view_test

The goal of view_test is to allow people who are using test/unit to
achieve a better level of
testing.

Zach D.
http://www.continuousthinking.com

zdennis · August 24, 2007, 10:28pm

Forgot to point out the right subclass for controllers. The original
post has been updated on
http://www.continuousthinking.com/tags/view_test

Functional tests need to subclass Rails::ControllerTest::TestCase
View tests need to subclass Rails::ViewTest::TestCase

Zach

zdennis · August 24, 2007, 10:53pm

On Aug 24, 2007, at 09:38, zdennis wrote:

The goal of view_test is to allow people who are using test/unit to
achieve a better level of
testing.

Have you looked at Test::Rails in ZenTest? I think rSpec got several
of its ideas for view testing from there.

http://zentest.rubyforge.org/ZenTest/classes/Test/Rails.html
http://zentest.rubyforge.org/ZenTest/classes/Test/Rails/
ControllerTestCase.html
http://zentest.rubyforge.org/ZenTest/classes/Test/Rails/
ViewTestCase.html

I do like your expect_render. May I steal it?

–
Poor workers blame their tools. Good workers build better tools. The
best workers get their tools to do the work for them. – Syndicate Wars

zdennis · August 25, 2007, 1:06am

On Aug 24, 4:51 pm, Eric H. [email protected] wrote:

Check it out athttp://www.continuousthinking.com/tags/view_test

The goal of view_test is to allow people who are using test/unit to
achieve a better level of
testing.

Have you looked at Test::Rails in ZenTest? I think rSpec got several
of its ideas for view testing from there.

A while back I checked it out, I think I need to give it a better
look.

http://zentest.rubyforge.org/ZenTest/classes/Test/Rails.htmlhttp://zentest.rubyforge.org/ZenTest/classes/Test/Rails/
ControllerTestCase.htmlhttp://zentest.rubyforge.org/ZenTest/classes/Test/Rails/
ViewTestCase.html

I do like your expect_render. May I steal it?

Absolutey, stealeth away!

Zach

zdennis · August 25, 2007, 12:06am

zdennis wrote:

[ANN] view_test 0.9.0

It allows you to migrate existing tests one test at a time to create
simpler functional tests
by extracting out all of the view assertions into their own view_test.

Check it out athttp://www.continuousthinking.com/tags/view_test

Does it peacefully coexist with form_test_helper?

I’m naturally incapable of excluding pilot error, but I suspect that
ZenTest’s ViewTestCase and form_test_helper collude to produce a nasty
error. I will reproduce it on request…

–
Phlip
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596510657/

zdennis · August 25, 2007, 4:17am

Does it peacefully coexist with form_test_helper?
Here’s the ZenTest + form_test_helper code that fails:

class ForumViewTest < Test::Rails::ViewTestCase
self.use_transactional_fixtures = mysql_tests? # true
fixtures :users, :rings

def test_host_ring
login_as :BunBun
render :action => ‘index’

submit_form 'host_ring_form' do |post|
  assert_equal users(:BunBun).id, post['user[id]'].value.to_i
  post['ring_name'] = 'progidy'
end

end
…

The failure message complains about @session being both deprecated and
already set. It appears below my sig.

The only overt @session assignment I can find in our beloved maze of
metaprogrammed Rails code and plugins is up in ZenTest, but if I
change that to ‘session’ the error persists. I can then add a ‘p
@session’ to anywhere in my test case, and it returns nil.

So should I switch to view_test?

–
Phlip
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596510657/
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Error:
test_host_ring(ForumViewTest):
RuntimeError: Deprecating @session, but it’s already set to
#<ActionController::TestSession:0xb68a6450 @attributes=nil,
@session_id=“”, @saved_attributes={:user=>6, “flash”=>{}}>! Use the
session= writer method instead of setting @session directly.
/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.13.3/lib/action_controller/base.rb:1074:in
assign_deprecated_shortcuts' /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.13.3/lib/action_controller/base.rb:1069:in each’
/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.13.3/lib/action_controller/base.rb:1069:in
assign_deprecated_shortcuts' /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.13.3/lib/action_controller/base.rb:1060:in assign_shortcuts_without_flash’
/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.13.3/lib/action_controller/flash.rb:140:in
assign_shortcuts' /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.13.3/lib/action_controller/base.rb:424:in process_without_filters’
/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.13.3/lib/action_controller/filters.rb:624:in
process_without_session_management_support' /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.13.3/lib/action_controller/session_management.rb:114:in process_without_test’
/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.13.3/lib/action_controller/test_process.rb:15:in
process' /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.13.3/lib/action_controller/test_process.rb:382:in process’
/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.13.3/lib/action_controller/test_process.rb:353:in
post' /home/phlip/projects/witz/champion/config/../vendor/plugins/form_test_helper/lib/form_test_helper.rb:361:in send’
/home/phlip/projects/witz/champion/config/…/vendor/plugins/form_test_helper/lib/form_test_helper.rb:361:in
make_request' /home/phlip/projects/witz/champion/config/../vendor/plugins/form_test_helper/lib/form_test_helper.rb:31:in submit_without_clicking_button’
/home/phlip/projects/witz/champion/config/…/vendor/plugins/form_test_helper/lib/form_test_helper.rb:40:in
submit' /home/phlip/projects/witz/champion/config/../vendor/plugins/form_test_helper/lib/form_test_helper.rb:311:in select_form’
/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/misc.rb:23:in
returning' /home/phlip/projects/witz/champion/config/../vendor/plugins/form_test_helper/lib/form_test_helper.rb:308:in select_form’
/home/phlip/projects/witz/champion/config/…/vendor/plugins/form_test_helper/lib/form_test_helper.rb:320:in
submit_form' ./test/functional/forum_view_test.rb:17:in test_host_ring’

zdennis · August 25, 2007, 10:20am

Here’s the ZenTest + form_test_helper code that fails:

Did you file a bug? I don’t see one in the tracker.

Will do. I didn’t yet because form_test_helper could need the bug
report…

–
Phlip
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596510657/
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zdennis · August 25, 2007, 5:42am

On Aug 24, 2007, at 19:16, Phlip wrote:

Does it peacefully coexist with form_test_helper?

Here’s the ZenTest + form_test_helper code that fails:

Did you file a bug? I don’t see one in the tracker.

–
Poor workers blame their tools. Good workers build better tools. The
best workers get their tools to do the work for them. – Syndicate Wars

zdennis · September 3, 2007, 6:18am

On Aug 24, 6:05 pm, Phlip [email protected] wrote:

Does it peacefully coexist with form_test_helper?

For view tests yes. For functional/controller tests no because the
views are no longer rendered here.

Zach
http://www.continuousthinking.com

zdennis · August 27, 2007, 12:50pm

On 8/24/07, Eric H. [email protected] wrote:

Check it out at http://www.continuousthinking.com/tags/view_test

The goal of view_test is to allow people who are using test/unit to
achieve a better level of
testing.

Have you looked at Test::Rails in ZenTest? I think rSpec got several
of its ideas for view testing from there.

Eric - it definitely did. Initially RSpec’s Rails plugin wrapped
ZenTest, but there were some things that I wanted to do differently so
I took what was needed and broke the dependency. You and Ryan are
credited in the license: http://rspec.rubyforge.org/license.html

zdennis · September 5, 2007, 12:33am

zdennis wrote:

Forgot to point out the right subclass for controllers. The original
post has been updated on http://www.continuousthinking.com/tags/view_test

Functional tests need to subclass Rails::ControllerTest::TestCase
View tests need to subclass Rails::ViewTest::TestCase

Does anyone have a reason for this error message?

rake aborted!
uninitialized constant Mocha::ParameterMatchers

We have sufficient mocha:

$ gem list | grep -i mocha
mocha (0.5.4, 0.5.1)

I will add a require to our test case and keep going…

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Phlip
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zdennis · September 6, 2007, 6:21pm

On 04/09/07, Phlip [email protected] wrote:

If you think this might be a Mocha bug (which it may well be), can you
send
some more details to the mocha mailing list (
http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mocha-developer) and we’ll look
into
it for you.

Thanks.

James.