"Web responses are volatile. Servers go down, API's change, responses change and every time something changes, your tests should fail. Mocking out web responses may speed up your test suite but the tests essentially become lies. Ephemeral Response encourages you to run your tests against real web services while keeping your test suite snappy by caching the responses and reusing them until they expire."

"YUI Test is a testing framework for browser-based JavaScript solutions. Using YUI Test, you can easily add unit testing to your JavaScript solutions. While not a direct port from any specific xUnit framework, YUI Test does derive some characteristics from nUnit and JUnit."

headless javascript testing in multiple browsers on the command line

"Hydra is a distributed testing framework. It allows you to distribute your tests locally across multiple cores and processors, as well as run your tests remotely over SSH."

"Culerity lets you: run Celerity from within Cucumber which allows you to test the full stack of your Rails (or other web) application from Database to in browser JavaScript run your application in any Ruby (like MRI 1.8.6) while Celerity runs in JRuby so you can still use gems/plugins that would not work with JRuby * reuse existing Webrat-Style step definitions"

"HTTP doesn't send integers, Dates, or ActiveRecords as parameters, it sends strings. This little plugin will simply
throw a friendly exception if you pass a parameter with an improper value to a functional test. It will accept strings, TestUploadedFile objects, and nil for all parameters. For route parameters (used to generate the path) it will also accept ActiveRecord objects."

Rails testing stylistic tips from Noel Rappin at Pathfinder

rake task to use rcov with rails

"A developer focused tool for automated testing of webapps"

to read

great rails TDD guide

looks helpful

this makes sense and is awesome and helpful

"Quiet Backtrace suppresses the noise in your Test::Unit backtrace. It also provides hooks for you to add additional silencers and filters." - so helpful

1. rcov script/server 2. Click through app. 3. See what's not getting called =-)

holy schmolly this is so awesome

nice idea

another nice test-driven development post for Ruby on Rails