Testing

Table of contents

Unit Testing
Feature Testing
Events
Requests

Run all tests with bundle exec rspec.
Add the SHOW_OUTPUT=1 flag to see the terminal output of some of the feature tests.

Unit Testing

Each component details how they should be unit tested:

Unit Testing Nodes

Feature Testing

Events

Nodes can be triggered and rendered via events. Most of the time the observe method is a class-level method which calls class-level methods on the observer. This fits in perfectly with the Method Factory pattern shown above, where a class level method instanitates the class and calls the corresponding instance method of the same name.

To test an event triggering an action on an observer do:

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Requests

To test the full application lifecycle then we will actually need to send an HTTP request to a mock server.