This morning I had my first look at the additional RSPEC Udemy course I have signed up for. My testing is suffering compared to others who have done this course, so I’m planning to do this for 30 min every morning. …

This week we are starting to look at the whiskey with water….. the ‘w’, ‘w’, ‘w’. Better known as the world wide web. On day 11 we mainly learned about clients and servers. It seems the entirety of the workings of the internet is about the relationships between client and…

Today was a real mixed bag. I started the day having a crack at the practicals provided to us for week 1 — last week’s exercises. Thinking they would be a walk in the park, I was quickly sat firmly down and told otherwise. I was stumped within seconds. I…

I started today feeling like I hadn’t been making much progress. And ended the day having felt as though I was making progress throughout the day, but actually I still feel like I’m not making much progress. There are a lot of online resources available, and that in itself is…

It’s 11pm and I’ve just remembered to write a post. A short one today. Mocks and doubles. I still don’t really get this concept but I’m confident I will with more practice. At the moment all I can say is that doubles (mocks, stubs and spies) and used when you’re…

The weekend challenge was titled ‘Airport Challenge’. This project encapsulated all that we had learned last week; mainly the work on TDD (test driven development). I gave myself Saturday morning off (for no other reason than I couldn’t be bothered), and then saw some messages floating around on Slack stating…

Arrange, Act, Assert — a simple process to putting together a test. First you arrange any pre-conditions you need for the test. A simple example would be creating a new instance of the class that you want to test. Then you call an action upon this. This means using the…

Test Driven Development — Feature tests and Unit tests. A Feature test is when you actually try to use the program i.e. using IRB. Therefore, before you have written any code, you try using the program as you would expect to as a user and it will flag up an…

Naming spec files — it appeared that spec.rb files only appear to work if you end the file name with “_spec.rb”. Predicate matchers — when writing tests using rspec, there is a whole host of vocabulary that can be used, and it responds to items in the code script in…