Riot: for fast, expressive and focused unit tests

Courtesy Ruby Inside  Sat, 10/31/2009 - 10:57

JustinRiot is a new Ruby test framework by Justin Knowlden that focuses on faster testing.

Justin was frustrated with his slow running test suites, despite employing techniques such as using factories, mocks and avoiding database access.

He realized that a slow-running suite makes one reluctant to run it or expand it - not good.

With Riot, each test consists of a block which forms a single assertion on the topic of the test, keeping the...


 

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