[katello-devel] Rspec and/or mini-test?

David Davis daviddavis at redhat.com
Mon Mar 11 11:58:59 UTC 2013


Another thing worth considering is that Rspec is by far the most popular Ruby testing framework [1] while TestUnit-style tests are probably more familiar to people outside of Ruby.

[1] https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/categories/testing_frameworks

David

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Partha Aji" <paji at redhat.com>
> To: "Lukas Zapletal" <lzap at redhat.com>
> Cc: katello-devel at redhat.com
> Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 5:44:59 AM
> Subject: Re: [katello-devel] Rspec and/or mini-test?
> 
> 
> 
> On Mar 11, 2013, at 2:02 PM, Lukas Zapletal <lzap at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Mar 09, 2013 at 08:43:06AM -0500, Bryan Kearney wrote:
> >> Why are we adding a new testing framework? Is it fixing a problem
> >> in
> >> the current frameworks?
> > 
> > +1
> > 
> > If we are going to shift from rspec to minitest-rspec, I dont
> > really see
> > any added value, except we will get rid of few test-time
> > dependencies.
> +1
> I like the xUnit syntax too.
> I would be ok with using just minitest as opposed to minitest:rspec
> 
> 
> Partha
> 
> > 
> > Please again, what is the pain we are trying to solve with this? I
> > was
> > under impression we don't like rspec syntax and wan't
> > straightforward
> > xunit syntax, but I can see this is not the case.
> > 
> > LZ
> > 
> > --
> > Later,
> > 
> > Lukas "lzap" Zapletal
> 
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