[rspec-users] Working outside-in with Cucumber and RSpec

[Matt Wynne]

On 27 Oct 2008, at 16:35, Pat Maddox wrote:

> Matt Wynne <matt at mattwynne.net> writes:
>
>> Pat - are you going solo too?
>
> Nope, I'm trying to teach RSpec/BDD to an organization that currently
> doesn't use it and has 0% test coverage.  It's interesting, to say the
> least.  They're good devs, but even so, the effects of not writing  
> tests
> first (or even at all) are painfully evident when trying to get the
> codebase under test, and especially to change stuff.  Really puts your
> "working effectively with legacy code" chops to work :)

:D

This reminds me of an argument I was going to make for consistently  
writing specs as you go, even for apparently very simple controllers.  
As the controller gets more and more complex, it's hard to know when  
you've crossed the line into something that needs specs, and when you  
realise it, it's usually too late.

That's why I'm happy in the TDD habit.