A NEW LOOK AT TEST-DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT - Dave Astels
A discussion on behaviour driven development using rspec examples
RSpec
Developing a Rails model using BDD and RSpec, Part 1 — Luke Redpath
seattlerb's heckle
err.the_blog.find_by_title('Be Dee Dee and Me')
the current state of BDD in ruby
Anodyne » Blog Archive » Rspec custom matchers and be_valid_xhtml
custom RSpec matcher to validate XHTML using the w3 SOAP validation service
Craig Ambrose. Using Model factories with RSpec
avoiding fixtures when writing model test in railks
:: GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING INTO OTHER GIANT ROBOTS :: Waiting For a Factory Girl
an alternative to using fixtures in Rails tests
:: GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING INTO OTHER GIANT ROBOTS :: Rails don't know testing
testing in rails without using fixtures or the database
lindsaar.net Tip #27 - Spec a Behaviour, Not an Implementation
tips for specing rails controllers
PNG Suite Test Icons
huge range of PNG files of various types, great for improving test coverage of PNG processing code
Talk Like A Duck : RSpec Meet MultiRuby
simple way of running specs with multiruby in rspec 1.2.7
Twitter / Xavier Shay: RSpec's before(:all) *does ...
RSpec's before(:all) does not run in a transaction, so any DB setup will not be rolled back, fouling up your test DB.
NUnit - Home
Steak + Capybara + Envjs = Refreshing take on Rails integration testing - rywalker.com
Steak is an integration testing library alternative to Cucumber. It’s just a thin layer on top of Rspec, but effectively rips out an abstraction layer (Cucumber step matchers) and helps improve developer productivity.
(My) RSpec best practices and tips | EggsOnBread
Nick Gauthier: Everything that is wrong with mocking, bdd, and rspec
Mocking is a great tool for dealing with stable APIs. However, when introduced in areas of the codebase that have just a small amount of churn, they can cripple the test suite with their brittleness