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The RSpec Book David Chelimsky, Dave Astels, Zach Dennis, Aslak Hellesøy, Bryan Helmkamp, Dan North |
This has to be one of the books with the highest valuable-content-to-page-count ratio that I have ever read. This is one of those books that makes you want to “run to your computer and try it out”—-you will love it!
This book has a lot of useful information that will help you make sure your tests are run as frequently as possible while wasting as little effort as possible on remembering to run them. I recommend this book to coworkers so they can incorporate the ideas into their daily work.
Nowadays many developers wonder how they ever wrote any code without automated tests and TDD/BDD. I suspect they will have a similar experience after reading this book: how did we ever build software systems without continuous feedback? Kudos to Ben and Rod for advancing the craft of software development by writing about, creating, and applying continuous testing tools and project-specific feedback loops.
Continuous testing-automatically running unit tests on every source file change-is a radically simple idea. But it requires brain refactoring to use it effectively. That’s why you need this book. Writing good tests for Autotest and Watchr, extending them to fit your coding style, using them for nontesting activities, and dealing with debugging fallout;Rady and Coffin have “been there, done that.” They help you become an effective continuous tester from day one.
