A Tale of Two Testing Frameworks
September 2015 at Jozi Ruby, Johannesburg, South Africa
Abstract
There are two main testing frameworks for Ruby code: RSpec and Minitest. I learnt testing coming to Ruby using RSpec as many of our companies Rails app used it. As I gained more experience, I begun to wonder why. I started to feel subtle pains of maintaining a large RSpec codebase. On my latest project I gave minitest a go, and this is what I learnt…
There’s no true winner. I prefer the simplicity of Minitest, but because RSpec is so popular, you need to know both frameworks as a professional Rubyist.
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