Regression Therapy – Contentful Testing
Regression testing is usually seen as the poorer cousin of "proper" domain-abstracted assertion-based testing. Often rightly so!
However, with the right support in place, I have found that this form of testing can work very well in certain contexts.
This article addresses one such context: testing the view content generated by a web app. I discuss the background, then present a concrete example in the form of a plug-in for Rails.
