Comments on: Zero To Tested With Cucumber and Factory Girl

By: Pritesh

Pritesh — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 14:24:13 +0000

Awesome post made my day.
Am now Zero To Tested With Cucumber and Factory Girl application owner

By: Clayton

Clayton — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:06:29 +0000

Jasper,

Thanks for the comments. I’ve since change the way I use Cucumber and have come to terms with my previous abuse of the tool. I definitely subscribe to the “You’re cuking it wrong” stuff that’s been going around as well as supporting the recent decision to remove web_steps.rb from cucumber-rails.

Unfortunately I haven’t found the time to go back and edit all of my old Cucumber related posts, so they’ll have to stand as a testament to how I used to do things incorrectly.

By: Jasper Kennis

Jasper Kennis — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 12:40:30 +0000

Also, specify a test per aspect. So, instead of:
Scenario: Creating a new Owner
Given I am on the homepage
And I follow “Owners”
Then I should be on the owners index page
Given I follow “New owner”
And I fill in “Name” with “Clayton”

Do something like:
Scenario: Viewing owners
Given I am on the homepage
And I follow “Owners”
Then I should be on the owners index page
Scenario: Adding owners
Given I am on the “New owner” page (probably without “)
And I fill in “Name” with “Clayton”

Sorry for the spam.

By: Jasper Kennis

Jasper Kennis — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 12:37:00 +0000

In order to write proper tests
As a developer
I should not us “and” to much

Instead of :
When I fill in “Name” with “Bruno”
And I select “Dog” from “Species”
And I select “March 19th, 2005″ as the “DOB” date
And I select “Clayton (clayton@example.org)” from “Owner”
When I press “Create”

it’s better to say:
When I submit the create form

and specify the exact values for the form fields and action to submit in the step definition. This way the behavior stays the same even if the form changes, and there is a clearer difference between “When I submit the create form” and “When I submit the create form with wrong values”.

For low level tests on what is acceptable input and what is not, don’t use Cucumber.

By: Perhaps

Perhaps — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 07:33:52 +0000

Vijay: if you’re using rails you should probably just put this in your Gemfile.

gem “factory_girl_rails”

And then run bundle install

By: vijay prasad

vijay prasad — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 06:21:05 +0000

Hi Clayton,
I found this tutorial very helpful.It nice post and really fulfil what I need .let me introduce myself, I am a php developer and new to the Testing and ROR framework .
I am facing one issue during installation process of sudo gem install thoughtbot-factory_girl –source=http://gemcutter.org .
It show me one error: ” ERROR: Could not find a valid gem ‘thoughtbot-factory_girl’ (>= 0) in any repository
ERROR: Possible alternatives: freegenie-factory_girl, malvestuto_factory_girl, jeffrafter-factory_girl, dm-factory_girl, verbose_factory_girl –
“.
So, Please suggest me which possible alternatives is used for better meant of testing with your post.I am unable to predict good choice for testing framework.So Please help me with your valuable suggestion.
Thanks a lot for you suggestion in advance.

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 18:03:13 +0000

Coming to this article a little late but it is exactly what I needed to push me forward. Thanks for this!

By: Zigzo

Zigzo — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 03:37:14 +0000

Clayton, I found this post to be fantastic and i’m not sure why it doesn’t have more comments as it’s VERY helpful.

I’ve posted it on rubyflow.com and gave you credit — hopefully more eyes see it because IMO (as a noob) cucumber makes a lot of sense when reading the tutorials and stuff out there … but when you sit down to actually use it some things do not click from the get go like simple “crud” tests….

anyways, thanks dood.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:41:45 +0000

excellent post!