David Chelimsky

Beta 10????? When the hell are we going to start chopping down some trees? Well, first, here’s what’s new in Beta 10 of The RSpec Book:

Automating the Browser with Webrat and Selenium

This new chapter from Bryan Helmkamp shows you how to drive Cucumber scenarios right through your browser using Webrat and Selenium. You’ll type a single command and watch a browser fire up and walk through each scenario step by step right before your very eyes, and then see a standard Cucumber report in the shell. It’s a sight to behold, and a great way to drive out behaviour that requires JavaScript.

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The RSpec Book Beta 8.0 was just released. This release includes a number of fixed errata and one new chapter. Yes, only one chapter, but its a doozy:

Managing Complexity in Step Definitions

This chapter introduces a random generator to the Codebreaker game. This brings up several issues that can add complexity to Cucumber scenarios, RSpec code examples, and the code we’re driving out with the aid of these tools and the BDD process. We address these issues and offer strategies to manage the complexity they introduce.

This release introduces two new chapters:

Writing Software that Matters

Having laid out the case for Behaviour Driven Development in The Case for BDD, this new chapter explores the principles and strategies that BDD brings to the Agile table.

Mock Objects

One of the most complex and controversial topics in developer testing is that of Mock Objects. In this new chapter, Mock Objects, we review some basic terminology and explore the underlying motivations for two essential tools in the BDD toolkit: test stubs and mock objects.

We’ve released version 4.0 of The RSpec Book beta. It’s got a number of improvements per suggestions submitted by readers, as well as two exciting new chapters.

New Chapter: Rails Controllers

Continuing inward on our outside-in journey, this chapter explores how (and when) to write controller specs. We also introduce approaches to dealing with some controller-specific spec’ing challenges like filters, global behaviour defined in application controller and sending email.

New Chapter: Extending RSpec

This chapter introduces techniques for extending RSpec to cater to domain-specific needs. Covered topics include custom example group classes, custom matchers (including an exciting new matcher definition DSL), macros and custom formatters. Whether customizing RSpec for your own app, or in order to ship domain-specific spec’ing extensions with the libraries you’re releasing, this chapter is filled with really useful information that will help you make your specs easier to write and read.

Thanks (again, and again, and again)

Many thanks to all of you who are already participating in The RSpec Book beta program and making so many great suggestions. Your ongoing contribution to this process remains invaluable for the book and all of its readers.