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Reputation: 48500

Testing framework for Sinatra

What are some options for testing Sinatra web services? Is RSpec still ideal? Cucumber? What are some of the current popular tools for testing Sinatra?

Upvotes: 2

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Answers (1)

Joel Helbling
Joel Helbling

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It depends on the needs of your project. Ordinarily I think I would lean toward RSpec for testing web services, but I recently had a project where we used cucumber instead. I feel that Cucumber was the right choice for us for a couple of reasons.

First, we wanted acceptance tests which would be approachable by a wide range of team roles. We were actually able to get our business analysts to write the first draft of our features and scenarios, which really gave the developers a nice head start.

Secondly, part of what we needed to test were user-intractable artifacts (emails). So for that part of the end-to-end part of the system we were testing, classic UI-oriented cucumber was a great fit.

I've done some playing around with driving TDD at the unit level with Cucumber. I find that I prefer Rspec for that: Cucumber isn't as flexible as Rspec or other unit-level frameworks.

So I think it kinda depends on the scale, scope and the participants.

Upvotes: 2

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