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Rspec Essentials
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Rspec Essentials

by Mani Tadayon
April 2016
Intermediate to advanced
222 pages
4h 30m
English
Packt Publishing
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Preface

RSpec is one of the reasons why the Ruby programming language has become so popular. There is a strong emphasis on testing, documentation, and iterative development in the Ruby community. With RSpec, it is easy to create excellent tests that specify behavior and improve the development process.

In this book, we'll learn how to use RSpec in a real-world setting. We'll also learn about the concept of testability, which relates to our application code as well as to our tests. Throughout, we'll focus on writing tests that are valuable and stay away from testing for its own sake.

RSpec offers a variety of tools for creating test scenarios, assertions, and error messages. We can create the tests we need and get the exact output we want using RSpec ...

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