The Merb Way

Chapter 13. Testing

Testing is critical to the robustness and longevity of your application, but unless you make it part of your application development process, you’re bound to find it painful. Somewhat surprisingly, however, teams and individuals who do integrate testing as part of standard development practices find that they almost can’t live without it. Why? There are two reasons. First, testing itself demands testable code, which in turn implies better-structured code because of the need for cleanly interfacing units. Second, a well-built test suite is essentially machine-interpretable documentation that not only prevents regressions but also gives developers insight into the intent of the code, no matter its condition.

Merb, as a framework ...