2008-09-05 16:10, Nick Hoffman: > I know what you mean about it feeling reassuring to know that your > tests/specs passed when run on production data. However, if your > specs, scenarios, tests, etc cover all behaviours, situations, edge > cases, etc, then you needn't worry. All is well.
I think you are overlooking the often stressed point of tests. You are supposed to gain confidence on your codebase by testing. If you have covered everything you can think of and still have the gut feeling that some end user voodoo hiding in production environment will kill your mighty app, why not run tests against production data too? You know very well, that if you have that icky feeling, it's not gonna go away if somebody says "you needn't worry". ;) Of course, if you hit something in production data, you should immediately isolate and reproduce the case in your tests and then go debugging. That way you aren't actually using production data as test data, but using it to develop the test data. And isn't that (reproducing a crack in production env into tests) just what the Laziness[1] is for too? [1] http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/laziness -- Tero Tilus ## 050 3635 235 ## http://www.tilus.net/koti/tero/ _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
