On Oct 24, 2007, at 6:39 pm, Pat Maddox wrote: > 4. Stories enable better refactoring. Using mocks makes your object > specs more brittle, so changes to your code often requires changes to > the specs. Because stories work at a very high level, specifying > observable behavior of the system, you can change the underlying code > without breaking behavior.
In a similar way, because they are so high-level, you drive much more development per line of story than you do per line of spec. In fact, you usually generate far more lines of specs than code, where a story can exercise far more lines of code than it takes to write. For people like me, who need to see progress to make progress, this is a big big win. Ashley -- blog @ http://aviewfromafar.net/ linked-in @ http://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleymoran currently @ home _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
