Assignment 7-1 - Testing the Rails Dictionary

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You've been hired at Webster's dictionary to help create a test suite for their new Rails based dictionary app that is live in production. They report that some features on the site break from time to time and they feel a good test suite will help them take on the folks over at Oxford English.

Adventure Mode

• Using your existing rails dictionary repository
• Add unit tests for each of your active record models
  • For each attribute that validates presence, add a test to ensure that a newly created model must have that attribute.
  • For any model that has a uniqueness validation, write a test that tries to add a second model with the same value, see that it fails.
• Using the TDD (test first) style, add a test for a method named fancy? that returns true if the word has more than 16 characters. Make sure that it also returns false for words that aren't fancy
  • Add the test for the new method FIRST
  • Confirm it fails
  • Resolve the message (typically method not defined)
  • Make the method pass

Explorer Mode

• Add a controller test for your search feature.
  • Validate that the correct instance variables are assigned.
  • Add some sample data (fixtures or factories -- see class notes) and validate that the instance variables have what you expect them to have populated
• If the search is implemented inside the controller, extract the implementation into a class method on your model.
  • Add a unit test for this newly created method.

Epic Mode

• Add an integration test that validates the correct results are returned when performing a search. NOTE: You will probably need to create more than one definition in your database for this.
• Add an integration test that validates:
  • There is a link on the homepage to create a new word
  • Requesting that link shows a form
  • Submitting a request to the app with the appropriate data for creating a word puts that definition in the database
  • Once submitted you are redirected to the main page and that word is there

Resources

• Today's class notes and code
• Rails testing guide
• Rails dom testing
• If you choose to use factories instead of fixtures give factory_girl a try.

[byronroark]

Still need help completing search tests for word and meaning using factory girl
https://github.com/byronroark/dictionary

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