functional_test_matrix gets a nice little boost
Published 2007-05-16 @ 17:03
Tagged zentest, rails, ruby, minitest
I’ve been wanting to do something like this for a little while… Namely, I was getting tired of cryptic little codes for everything. Here and there I don’t mind, but for every action I’d rather the nominal case fade into the background. So, like :na, I added :OK, which has the added benefit of rendering green instead of blue in emacs (because it is uppercase, I think ruby-mode thinks it is a const).
Before:
matrix :pages, :c_rw, :c_W, :c_R, :o_rw, :g_c, :a_rw, :a_W, :a_R
action :delete, :del, :del, :del, :del, :e_NF, :del, :del, :del
action :edit, :edit, :edit, :edit, :edit, :e_NF, :edit, :edit, :edit
action :publish, :pub, :pub, :pub, :pub, :e_NF, :pub, :pub, :pub
action :unpublish, :unpb, :unpb, :unpb, :unpb, :e_NF, :unpb, :unpb, :unpb
action :update, :updt, :updt, :updt, :updt, :e_NF, :updt, :updt, :updt
action :view, :view, :view, :view, :view, :e_NF, :view, :view, :view
action :delete, :del, :del, :del, :del, :e_NF, :del, :del, :del
action :edit, :edit, :edit, :edit, :edit, :e_NF, :edit, :edit, :edit
action :publish, :pub, :pub, :pub, :pub, :e_NF, :pub, :pub, :pub
action :unpublish, :unpb, :unpb, :unpb, :unpb, :e_NF, :unpb, :unpb, :unpb
action :update, :updt, :updt, :updt, :updt, :e_NF, :updt, :updt, :updt
action :view, :view, :view, :view, :view, :e_NF, :view, :view, :view
After:
matrix :pages, :c_rw, :c_W, :c_R, :o_rw, :g_c, :a_rw, :a_W, :a_R
action :delete, :OK, :OK, :OK, :OK, :OK, :OK, :e_NF, :OK
action :edit, :OK, :OK, :OK, :OK, :OK, :OK, :e_NF, :OK
action :publish, :OK, :OK, :OK, :OK, :OK, :OK, :e_NF, :OK
action :unpublish, :OK, :OK, :OK, :OK, :OK, :OK, :e_NF, :OK
action :update, :OK, :OK, :OK, :OK, :OK, :OK, :e_NF, :OK
action :view, :OK, :OK, :OK, :OK, :OK, :OK, :e_NF, :OK
action :delete, :OK, :OK, :OK, :OK, :OK, :OK, :e_NF, :OK
action :edit, :OK, :OK, :OK, :OK, :OK, :OK, :e_NF, :OK
action :publish, :OK, :OK, :OK, :OK, :OK, :OK, :e_NF, :OK
action :unpublish, :OK, :OK, :OK, :OK, :OK, :OK, :e_NF, :OK
action :update, :OK, :OK, :OK, :OK, :OK, :OK, :e_NF, :OK
action :view, :OK, :OK, :OK, :OK, :OK, :OK, :e_NF, :OK
See how nice all those error cases pop out at you now? I love that. Now I can gloss over the green OKs and question everything else (n/a’s and errors alike). It’ll help me question my requirements even more.
:OK dispatches to a validator with the same name as the action, so now they’re more readable.
Before:
def matrix_test_unpub(...)
# ...
end
# ...
end
After:
def matrix_test_unpublish(...)
# ...
end
# ...
end