Rails Conf 2013 The Magic Tricks of Testing by Sandi Metz

Why HN readers recommended it

HN recommends it as an incredible talk whose testing principles apply beyond Ruby.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Confreaks

Topic

testing strategy

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

5

HN mentions in dataset

5

Recommendation years in dataset

2013–2019

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From the original HN conversations

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• What I wish people had told me about testing: * You write tests in accordance with a pattern: 1. Arrange 2. Act 3. Assert 4. Annihilate If you annihilate your test data with configuration options, and you abstract your "arranging" into factories and custom methods, …

• Shout out for Sandi Metz book POODR, and her Railsconf talk The Magic Tricks of Testing, if you're a rubyist (though the principles hold true for non-ruby OO programmers too). [VIDEO]

• I spend about 30% of my time on a new feature writing tests. BTW that is in RoR which the primary language I code in. I would recommend watching this video by Sandi Matz on testing: [VIDEO] . I have used this methodology a lot …