Xavier Shay:
I use a different set of categories for my tests:
- Unit. Do our objects do the right thing, and are they convenient to work with?
- Integration. Does our code work against code we can’t change?
- Acceptance. Does the whole system work?
Note that these definitions of unit and integration are radically different to how Rails defines them. […] All of the typical Rails tests fall under the “integration” label.
Xavier then goes on to restate how A test is not a unit test if it talks to
the database, communicates across a network, or touches the file system
, and
what constitutes an acceptance test.