The history of testing framework in Ruby
summary
Timeline of Ruby test frameworks with dates and outcomes: RSpec (2005) introduces BDD and gains users; classic XUnit-style test-unit gem (split 2008, originally bundled in 1.8 and removed in 1.9) remains highly compatible with old APIs; minitest (first release Oct 2008) is small, fast and becomes Ruby’s bundled tester in 1.9, later evolving to minitest 5 which introduces incompatibilities. Ruby 2.2 ends up bundling minitest and the test-unit gem (Ruby uses forked test helpers for its own test suite) to keep core tests working.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:16Early testing frameworks
- 5:30Test::Unit creation
- 9:48Ruby 1.8 bundling
- 12:38Ruby 1.9 and MiniTest
- 15:31Ruby 2.1 and 2.2 changes
- 18:22Test::Unit API explained
- 23:43Assertions and debugging
- 26:56Power assertions vs assertions
- 29:07Fixtures and Ruby style
- 31:29Q&A
