[rspec-users] Should acceptance tests be run against a production environment?

[Ashley Moran]

On Oct 28, 2008, at 5:08 pm, Pat Maddox wrote:

> When you do end-to-end acceptance testing with Selenium, I think it
> should be run against a production environment.  Not THE production
> environment, mind you, but simply a new Rails app running with
> RAILS_ENV=production.  Also, transactional fixtures should be turned
> off.  This is so that the app runs as closely as possible to how it  
> does
> from a regular user's perspective.  Models and pages get cached,
> transactions commit and rollback as they're defined, etc.  What do you
> think?  Am I off base here?

Hi Pat

This makes sense to me.  I actually tend to run feature files against  
the development environment though (well, features, which is a cp of  
development).  The code reloading saves me from having to stop and  
start the server.  Transactions and page caching are the big ones to  
me - model caching should *reduce* bugs, surely.

A run against a production makes sense though, especially before  
committing.

Ashley

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