mike wrote:
Hi, I'm reading RoR e-commerce and I've discovered that they test also tag like h1, form and other.. When you use TDD with rails what do you test? also tag like title, table, etc? i think it's useful to test something that it's necessary to be there in a certain style or something like a certain title, but what do you think?
TDD generally means "test-first" programming. For a back-end module, TFP provides incredible visibility. For code running in or just under a GUI, you already get a lot of visibility by running the GUI.
The guideline for TFP in a back-end module is "test-first everything you need to work". If you don't need something to work, you ought to not write it, so that generally means to TFP everything.
The guideline for TFP in a GUI is less strict. "Test-first everything that might break invisibly." If you switch a background color to pink, and if a bug turns it green, you can see that immediately. (Further, if you _like_ the green, you can ignore the bug and keep going.)
I like to call test-free programming, in a GUI, "authoring". That's the equivalent of using an editor to write HTML. It's not really programming; it's just scripting an existing program. You are not writing a new browser, so don't TFP your pink background color.
