We cover:

  • How to generate readable documentation from your specs
  • How to identify the slowest examples in a suite
  • How to run just the specs you care about at any given moment
  • How to mark work in progress and come back to it later

Chapter 2From Writing Specs to Running Them

You’ve installed RSpec and taken it for a test drive. You’ve written a few specs and gotten a feel for how they’re different from test cases in traditional frameworks. You’ve also seen a few ways to trim repetition from your examples.

In the process, you’ve applied the following practices:

  • Structuring your examples logically into groups
  • Writing clear expectations that test at the right level of detail
  • Sharing common setup code across specs

RSpec is designed around these habits, ...

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