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		leftnode on June 21, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dropbox Cofounder & CTO Arash Ferdowsi responds to... Wouldn't a functional test have caught this better? Ideally a unit test would use mock objects for all external resources, so it probably wouldn't have caught this. A full end to end functional test would have.

benatkin on June 21, 2011 [–]

Yes. Functional test, integration test, request test (as rspec-rails calls it).

Better if it tests the production site directly, in addition to testing in a test environment.

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