[katello-devel] Let's not

Jeff Weiss jweiss at redhat.com
Tue Nov 20 18:50:56 UTC 2012


Lukas Zapletal <lzap at redhat.com> writes:

> I can't leave my feeling that xUnit is so much easier to understand,
> this thing is over-engineered. You can do the same without DSL, clearly
> and nicely. And without that big learning curve.
>
> LZ

+1 

Not that you guys need to listen to me - they're your tests so you can
use the tools you like.

But I find rspec, cucumber, etc to be a gimmick. We're all coders,
there's no reason to even attempt to make tests readable by non coders.
IMO that is a pipe dream anyway, it's not possible. 


>
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 08:57:04AM -0500, David Davis wrote:
>> I found a good article regarding how to test in Rspec. Personally, I
>> was trying to force myself to use Rspec's DSL as much as possible.
>> This article says that this is not always a good idea.
>> 
>> http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/34709581001/lets-not
>> 
>> David
>> 
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