Rails 4 Test Prescriptions

Retrospective

Let’s take a step back and discuss what happened here. We’re supposed to be talking about integration tests, and yet we never touched the integration test after we initially wrote it. What good is that? (Full disclosure: in initial writing I did have to go back and clean up the integration test because I had syntax errors and the like. Sometimes I need to fix the assertions after I see what the view looks like.)

The existence of the integration test gives us a few benefits as we write these tests:

• There’s a structure; we know what needs to be done next. This is valuable, although given the nature of a lot of server-side development there does tend to be one large gap where the integration test provides the expected outcome ...