Unitilshttp://www.unitils.org/summary.html |
RSpechttps://rspec.info |
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Programming language |
Java |
Ruby |
Category |
Unit Testing, Intergration Testing |
Unit Testing, Intergration Testing |
General info |
Unitils is an open source library whose goal is to make unit and integration testing easy and maintainable.Unitils is divided into modules, each of them providing support for a certain aspect of your unit and integration tests. For example if you need mocking for your tests, just include unitils-mock as a dependency, If you would also want to load DbUnit data sets, just include unitils-dbunit |
Domain Specific Language (DSL) testing solution for Ruby codeIt focuses on empowering Test Driven Development (TDD). RSpec contains multiple smaller libraries, which may be independently used with other testing frameworks. |
xUnit
Set of frameworks originating from SUnit (Smalltalk's testing framework). They share similar structure and functionality. |
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YesYes, but it differs from more traiditional xUnit solutions. Its tests are written in a "Tests as Specification" manner. This means that the terminology used in RSpec is adjusted to a language more fitting for specification. |
Client-side
Allows testing code execution on the client, such as a web browser |
YesYou can perform unit tests on various components and functionality that make up the front-end |
YesRSpec is used to primarily test the behaviour of applications or individual components so it can test front-end behaviour as well - you can use capybara gem with RSpec for that. |
Server-side
Allows testing the bahovior of a server-side code |
YesUnitils provides support for testing the back-end through modules such as DbUnit which specifically tests your database, i.e connections setup and so on |
YesYou can test server-side behaviour with Rspec |
Fixtures
Allows defining a fixed, specific states of data (fixtures) that are test-local. This ensures specific environment for a single test |
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YesRSpec does contain fixture methods |
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. |
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YesGroup fixture methods are supported |
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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YesRSpec contains generators for example intergration_'test_name' which will save a spec inside the spec/requests folder |
Licence
Licence type governing the use and redistribution of the software |
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MIT License |
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) |
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YesAvailable through rspec-mocks gem. |
Grouping
Allows organizing tests in groups |
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YesAllows declaring example groups and contexts. |
Other
Other useful information about the testing framework |
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