Testing Rails from Scratch

1. Introduction

1. Confident testing
2. Why Minitest?
3. Who should read this book
4. My testing philosophy
5. How the book is organized
6. Downloading the sample code
7. Code conventions
8. Discussion and errata
9. A note about gem versions
10. A note about styling
11. About the sample application

2. Setting up Minitest

1. Test database
2. Clean the slate
3. Nicer reporting
4. Summary
5. Exercises

3. Model tests

1. Anatomy of a model test
2. Creating a model test
3. An aside on test
4. More Minitest syntax
5. Testing validations
6. Testing instance methods
7. Testing class methods and scopes
8. Testing all the cases
9. Summary
10. Exercises

4. Keeping tests DRY

1. DRYer test setup and teardown
2. How DRY is too DRY?
3. Summary
4. Exercises

5. Test data with Rails defaults

1. What are fixtures?
2. Dynamic data inside fixtures
3. Associating test data with other test data
4. The problems with fixtures
5. Fixtures: The good parts
6. Summary
7. Exercises

6. Test data with factories

1. Installing factory_bot
2. Adding factories to the application
3. Generating unique data with sequences
4. Associations in factories
5. Using factories safely
6. Summary
7. Exercises

7. Integration tests, part 1

1. Basic integration tests
2. Testing user authentication
3. Testing user authorization
4. Testing user input
5. Summary
6. Exercises

8. Integration tests, part 2

1. Testing invalid user input
2. Simplifying test data with traits
3. Testing non-HTML requests and responses
4. The cost of test data
5. Summary
6. Exercises

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About the author

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