Hi Steve, I wrote the spec first and then the implementation. I think I could have written a better behavior description. I don't think the method name is as good or specific as it could be. I just wanted the class to be able to add two numbers... so maybe the specification could reflect that more... and I want the class to add two numbers because I wanted to practice using rspec and figured a simple program would be good to start out with.
- Calvin On Sep 21, 7:47 pm, Stephen Eley <sfe...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Calvin <cstephe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I am pretty new to RSpec and I wonder if some code I have written is > > leading me in the right direction. Any advice is greatly appreciated! > > As a beginner exercise, this code looks perfectly functional to me. > But I believe you left out the interesting parts: > > * Which did you write first? The spec or the implementation? > > * Is the behavior description, "it should perform calculations," clear > and precise? If I didn't have access to the code, would I be able to > read that description and know something useful about the class's > behavior? > > * Why did you choose the method name "equation"? If I simply knew > that name, would I be able to tell what that method does? > > * What is it you _really_ want this class to do? Does the > specification help you verify that it acts according to your > intention? > > * Why do you want it to do that? (Okay, granted, this may be more of > a Cucumber question than an RSpec question.) >8-> > > -- > Have Fun, > Steve Eley (sfe...@gmail.com) > ESCAPE POD - The Science Fiction Podcast Magazine > http://www.escapepod.org > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-us...@rubyforge.orghttp://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
