Everyday Scripting with Ruby For Teams, Testers, and You

Name: Everyday Scripting with Ruby For Teams, Testers, and You
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ISBN: 9780977616619

ISBN-10: 0977616614

ISBN-13: 9780977616619

Edition: 2006

Authors: Brian Marick

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"Scripting for Testers is divided into two parts: Talking the Talk and Walking the Walk. In the first, you'll learn the Ruby scripting language and the overall craft of scripting. In the second, you'll see how that knowledge can be applied to solve common testing problems. You'll also see how to cope with common mistakes. You'll see how to recover from blind alleys and how to recognize and fix your own scripting. You'll even see examples of the most common typos, so that you'll recognize the symptoms when you see them. The second part of the book shows finished scripts, ready to use and deploy for testing as well as other common rote tasks (you'll find still more projects on the book's…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Pragmatic Programmers, LLC, The
Publication date: 2/13/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 310
Size: 7.50" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.518
Language: English




Introduction



Getting started



A first script : comparing file inventories



Ruby facts : arrays



Three improvements and a bug fix



Ruby facts : if, equality testing, and unless



The Churn project : writing scripts without fuss



Ruby facts : Booleans



Our friend, the regular expression



Ruby facts : regular expressions



Classes bundle data and methods



Ruby facts : classes (with a side order of symbols)



Scraping Web pages with regular expressions



Other ways of working with Web applications



Working with comma-separated values



Ruby facts : hashes



Ruby facts : argument lists



Downloading helper scripts and applications



A polished script



Ruby facts : modules



When scripts run into problems



Frameworks : scripting by filling in blanks



Discovery is safer than creation



Final thoughts