Acceptance Tests?

[Mike Moore]

I'd like to take everyone's temperature. Rails 4 recently accepted a pull request to change the default locations of tests to test/models and test/controllers, giving minitest-rails users a great upgrade path. I also tried to change the "integration" tests to be named "acceptance" but caught some deserved resistance to that. Most don't use current integration tests to drive the implementation of features (ala cucumber). So renaming them isn't a good idea. I think this is correct, and I wondered what it would take to get true acceptance tests built on top of minitest in Rails 4.

I recently read through a presentation by Andy Lindeman and he showed the rspec syntax for acceptance tests. That got me thinking. Is there any interest in a gem built on top of Rails 4 (or minitest-rails for Rails 3) that enabled the following syntax for tests in test/acceptance?

    feature "Accounts" do

      scenario "new accounts start with a zero balance" do

        login_as_depositor

        open_new_account

        balance_will_be("0.00")

      end

      protected

      def login_as_depositor

        @user = users :depositor

        visit new_user_session

        fill_in user_username, @user.username

        click_on :submit

      end

      def open_new_account

        # ...

      end

      def balance_will_be(balance)

        # assert_includes? page.text, "Balance: $#{balance}"

        page.text.must_include? "Balance: $#{balance}"

      end

    end

http://alindeman.github.com/acceptance_testing/#/28

http://alindeman.github.com/acceptance_testing/#/29

[Diwa Laksh]

+1 for this.

The rspec DSL is implemented by  https://github.com/jnicklas/capybara/blob/master/lib/capybara/rspec/features.rb

In fact, there is a simple minispec implementation available at https://github.com/Erol/fillet/blob/master/lib/fillet.rb

It would be great if this can be natively provided by minitest as acceptance DSL in addition to the test and spec style it offers.

[Luca G. Soave]

+1 for minitest as acceptance DSL

[Mike Moore]

This is in minitest-rails-capybara now. 

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