Spec by Spec

An approach to build web applications with TDD by focusing on the use cases.

Building an app Spec by Spec

My book! Here I show how you can use the Spec by Spec approach to build web applications with TDD by focusing on the use cases.

All articles

• A decoupled CRUD on Rails
• A decoupled CRUD example
• Truncating multiple line text… (read-more behavior) with Stimulus.js
• Less code in your javascript sprinkles with Stimulus.js
• Not using end-to-end tests in your TDD cycle
• Using end-to-end tests in your TDD cycle
• A tip for faster Rails Helpers Tests
• Is easier to do TDD for your dependencies after you have designed their API using mocks
• Are you testing implementation details?
• Use mocks to design your dependencies when using TDD with a use case approach
• A guide to help you structure your test when using TDD with a use case approach.
• A simple way to organize your app in use cases
• How organizing your code in use cases can help you to start your projects using TDD
• How and when to use mock objects with ruby and rspec
• How to test that you are creating a record without using the database
• How to test that an specific email was sent
• How dependency injection saved me some hours of work
• Slow Tests?… How to remove the database from your tests and make them fast!
• The secret for Unit Testing on Rails
• Writing unit tests as feature tests
• A little template for testing record creation via unit test on your App
• Three different ways of testing your Rails App
• Clean a controller action being explicit about the business rules
• Unit Tests …. ¿Que es una unidad? ¿Puedo hacer un mock de una unidad?
• 5 Reglas para desacoplar tu aplicación de Rails y tener pruebas realmente rápidas
• Rails no es mi app…. pero ¿Que tanto debería delegar al modelo?
• Fast tests for apps that use Rails (slides)
• Deciding who to invite to your wedding using ruby
• Testing functions with side effects in elixir (by a functional noob)
• Your first feature spec
• Guía para empezar a usar Git
• A controller that knows less
• Thinking small programs
• Building simpler models, using custom PORO validators
• Como hacer modelos más simples, usando validadores especializados.
• Emberjs vs My frontend hacks - Actualizar Contadores
• Practicar, practicar, practicar
• (Refactor) Dynamic assignment with coffeescript
• User-centric Routing with Devise and Rails
• Your API in your Views, using Jbuilder
• Objetos en javascript (bueno coffeescript)
• Refactoring my old cucumber tests
• Making a template handler with Markdown and ERb