Minitesthttps://github.com/seattlerb/minitest |
Spinachhttps://github.com/codegram/spinach |
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Programming language | Ruby | Ruby |
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Unit Testing
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Acceptance Testing
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General info |
Complete suite of testing facilities Minitest is small, fast, and it aims to make tests clean and readable. It supports test-driven development (TDD), behavior-driven development (BDD), mocking, and benchmarking. |
Spinach is a BDD framework on top of Gherkin Spinach is a high-level BDD framework that leverages the Gherkin language to help define executable specifications of your application or library's acceptance criteria. |
xUnit
Set of frameworks originating from SUnit (Smalltalk's testing framework). They share similar structure and functionality. |
Yes MiniTest is an xUnit style framework in that is has assertion functions in the style of xUnit/TDD |
No
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Client-side
Allows testing code execution on the client, such as a web browser |
No
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N/A
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Server-side
Allows testing the bahovior of a server-side code |
Yes You can test various back-end components |
Yes You can test any server-side behaviour with Spinach |
Fixtures
Allows defining a fixed, specific states of data (fixtures) that are test-local. This ensures specific environment for a single test |
Yes Minitest supports test fixture functions |
No
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Group fixtures
Allows defining a fixed, specific states of data for a group of tests (group-fixtures). This ensures specific environment for a given group of tests. |
Yes Minitest has group fixtures |
No
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Generators
Supports data generators for tests. Data generators generate input data for test. The test is then run for each input data produced in this way. |
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Yes Spinach has inbuilt generator methods |
Licence
Licence type governing the use and redistribution of the software |
MIT License
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MIT License
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Mocks
Mocks are objects that simulate the behavior of real objects. Using mocks allows testing some part of the code in isolation (with other parts mocked when needed) |
Yes Mocking is available through the Minitest::Mock class which is a simple and clean mock object framework |
Yes Spinach can access the rspec-mocks methods |
Grouping
Allows organizing tests in groups |
Yes Allows grouping by nested Ruby classes. RSpec-like "context" method is available for spec syntax through the minitest-spec-context extension gem |
Yes Spinach Integrates with your RSpec test suite which allows declaring example groups and contexts. |
Other
Other useful information about the testing framework |
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