Re: [testdrivendevelopment] How would you TDD a website front-end?

Alan,

I would test the business logic of the model/web service.
I would also have a few tests that make sure the view is wired correctly=
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to the model/web service. Not many of these.
I might also have tests that provide model data to the view and make=20
verifications that it handles them correctly. This can be hard.

  - George

On 1/2/20 8:49 PM, Alan Baljeu via Groups.Io wrote:
> The pattern I have is
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> User inputs a value
> Form posts value to server
> Server responds with new model data.
> Form reconfigures.
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> "Test changes to the model" then I think means testing the web service.=
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> So don't test the view?
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> Alan Baljeu
> [email protected]
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> On Thursday, January 2, 2020, 06:58:20 p.m. EST, Avi Kessner=20
> <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Test the changes to the model, not the GUI itself.
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> On Fri, Jan 3, 2020, 00:26 George Dinwiddie <[email protected]=20
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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>     Alan,
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>     Way back, I played with test-driving AWT and Java Swing UIs, startin=
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>     with just jUnit. Given the availability of web driver libraries, you
>     can
>     do similar things much more easily.
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>     In general, I tested the GUI with a test API to make sure things wer=
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>     wired up correctly. I tested the actual API to make sure the system
>     worked correctly.
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>     https://github.com/gdinwiddie/EquineHoroscope/tree/master/src/test/j=
ava/com/gdinwiddie/equinehoroscope/acceptance
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>     you can see an example of re-using a test that drove the API
>     creation to
>     check the same result from the GUI by injecting a different adapter =
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>     talk with the system under test.
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>      =C2=A0 - George
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>      > Alan Baljeu
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