» Useful test for Rails functional tests

Mon

Mar '06

by Frank Spychalski filed under Rails, Ruby, Work

Evil folks and stupid users expose webapplications to requests no sane developer usually expects. To find methods that cannot cope with unexpected input I added a simple test to my current Ruby on Rails project. The test calls all public actions via all http actions and uses some dummy parameters. There are no assertions in this test, because I don’t know if an action should succeed or redirect. The only thing checked with this test is that the action does not fail.

def test_dummy_calls
  ac = ApplicationController.new
  @controller.public_methods.each do |action|
    unless ac.respond_to?(action)
      [:get, :post, :head, :put, :delete].each do |http_method|
        [nil, '', 'abc'*80, '-23', '123456789012345'].each do |param|
          method(http_method).call(action, :id => param)
        end
      end
    end
  end
end

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2 Responses to “Useful test for Rails functional tests”

1

quite a useful test, thanks for the post

Joshua (April 11th, 2007 at 08:49)
2

Pretty slick. I like it.

Brian McQuay (August 17th, 2007 at 03:52)

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