This project is for CS2512 Advanced Web Application Development.

• Must be test driven.
• Must be deployed to heroku.
• Solo project.

For this project I wanted to be really strict about TDD. Until I reach the design phase, I am not opening the browser at all but relying on tests to know everything works. In addition, I only write application code to pass a test - the test is used to drive functionality.

My main testing framework is RSpec. I have no experience with Test::Unit, and besides I like the readability of RSpec.

• Views were tested using RSpec integration tests. I find it useful to be able to include some simple behaviour tests like clicking on links, and (AFAIK) this is not as easy in standard RSpec view tests.

• Controllers and Models were tested with RSpec. I learnt RoR from Michael Hartl's 'Ruby on Rails Tutorial', where he advocates testing the views in the controller specs. I don't like to do that, and my controller tests only test code in the app/controllers directory.

Black-box integration testing is handled by Cucumber features.

This is a solo project with no external specifications, but I still find it useful to have acceptance tests. In my mind I have an idea of what I want the site to be like, and these broad ideas form the basis of acceptance tests.

In addition, this site is intended to replace a well-used older site. Thanks to this talk, I want to make it possible for existing users to use the new site like the old. The challenge is to add all my desired functionality without changing the existing workflows of site users.