Saturday, December 1, 2012

Booya: Iron Fixture Extractor 1.0.0

Booya! Announcing Iron Fixture Extractor 1.0!

I posted about this tool several months ago, when it was just a wee baby, and I'm posting again because it's grown up to become part of the bread and butter of our development process and has had many features, bug fixes, and test coverage added.

This tool has been absolutely critical in building the app we're working for building complex fixture sets dynamically from our deployed staging app and incorporating into our test cases to ensure the app operates correctly with all of the crazy data nuances.  It has allowed us to leverage our business analysts deep data knowledge and make our tests reflect reality better.

I also rewrote the README to be a bit more useful:
https://github.com/joegoggins/iron_fixture_extractor

I hope others find this tool useful...

...when your data is too complex for factories, you don't want to manually maintain fixtures, and you don't want to take the risk of missing the edge-cases resident in real data:

Iron Fixture Extractor.