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Software that doesn't need testing - that doesn't exist I am afraid. The UI is a different ball game (and as browsers evolve it will continuously change), and
by fendale 19y ago
Software that doesn't need testing - that doesn't exist I am afraid.
The UI is a different ball game (and as browsers evolve it will continuously change), and there are tools out there to solve it in some way or another. With the Rails tests, at least you have confidence that your backend is correct which is probably 80% of the battle.
Also, the value of automated tests in general is to give you confidence that the small change you just made didn't break something else!
- nostrademons 19y agoI wouldn't test a pure CRUDscreen put-data-on-the-screen app. How would it break? The app is basically a specification of the data you want moved from database to the web page. And with the apps I've worked on, about 80% of the battle was the UI. The backend was usually pretty simple data storage. That could be because my career has been largely UI-centric, but there are certainly apps out there where the UI code is more complex than the computation itself.