advice needed on testing strategy

[Bill Walton]

Greetings!

I'm working on a library that wraps REXML processing of a specific XML =
format (CCR - Continuity of Care Record). The objective is to process =
the XML so that the developer doesn't have to. So, for example, I can =
do...

ccr =3D RubyCCR:ocument.open('demo.xml') #open file / read the XML =
into a set of objects
ccr.actors.each do |this_actor|
@first_name =3D this_actor.current_name.family
@last_name =3D this_actor.current_name.family
end

From a testing perspective, my objective is to make sure that all the =
content in the XML file actually ends up in the appropriate objects / =
attributes. Right now I'm loading specific XML files per testcase / =
test and hardcoding the expected values in my unit tests based on =
knowing what's in the XML file being loaded. This seems wrong. If =
anybody's got a better idea, I'd sure appreciate hearing it.

Thanks,
Bill

 

[Ron Fox]

Make your wrapping capable of operating from a string.
Then your test XML and results are all in the same place