Question

We actually do not use test within our application (I know that’s bad and sad). I have reads a lot about Test::Unit, Shouda, minitest and the new one Bacon. But cannot make my mind yet. Basically our needs are :

• Use of watir (love it)
• Easy to learn
• Do not mess with the application (like Rspec generator – not against rspec)
• Integration with rails 3
• No clients will have to read it, only dev.

What do you think ?

Answer 1

I actually abandoned Test::Unit and switched to RSpec 2. Only developers have to read our tests, but RSpec seems to encourage better structured tests than Test::Unit. It’s different to most other testing frameworks though, so there’s a small learning curve, but only for the first few days.

I also strongly advise that you don’t use Rails’ fixtures and you take a look at Machinist.