# Sensu Plugins testing

**URL:** <https://discourse.sensu.io/t/sensu-plugins-testing/398>\
**Category:** Sensu Classic (EOL)\
**Created:** [March 13, 2015, 12:59am UTC](https://discourse.sensu.io/t/sensu-plugins-testing/398 "2015-03-13T00:59:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Matt\_Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Matt\_Jones](https://discourse.sensu.io/u/Matt_Jones)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2015, 12:59am UTC](https://discourse.sensu.io/t/sensu-plugins-testing/398/1 "2015-03-13T00:59:07Z")

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I have has several people ask me this week about a testing framework or at least if we wanted minitest or rspec.

For the record I don’t have a preference but we should pick one and stick to it. I believe minitest is wining the race right now but I could be wrong.

Currently when doing PR’s against the new repos tests are not required but very strongly encouraged and most pr’s are including them.

Thoughts?

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> Matt Jones @DevopsMatt
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> Infrastructure Engineer - [Yieldbot Inc.](http://yieldbot.com/)
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> Core Contributor - [Sensu Plugins](http://sensu-plugins.github.io/)

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**Author:** ![Artem\_Chernikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a587f6/32.png) [@Artem\_Chernikov](https://discourse.sensu.io/u/Artem_Chernikov)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2015, 12:49pm UTC](https://discourse.sensu.io/t/sensu-plugins-testing/398/2 "2015-03-13T12:49:04Z")

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I would say that rspec is more suitable for the task - has more features and more or less standard de-facto right now in many ruby projects.

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> On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 1:59 AM Matt Jones [mattjones@yieldbot.com](mailto:mattjones@yieldbot.com) wrote:
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> > I have has several people ask me this week about a testing framework or at least if we wanted minitest or rspec.
> 
> > For the record I don’t have a preference but we should pick one and stick to it. I believe minitest is wining the race right now but I could be wrong.
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> > 
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> > Currently when doing PR’s against the new repos tests are not required but very strongly encouraged and most pr’s are including them.
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> > 
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> > Thoughts?
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> > –  
> > Matt Jones @DevopsMatt
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> > Infrastructure Engineer - [Yieldbot Inc.](http://yieldbot.com/)
> 
> > Core Contributor - [Sensu Plugins](http://sensu-plugins.github.io/)
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> >

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**Author:** ![Sean\_Porter1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Sean\_Porter1](https://discourse.sensu.io/u/Sean_Porter1)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2015, 5:13pm UTC](https://discourse.sensu.io/t/sensu-plugins-testing/398/3 "2015-03-26T17:13:21Z")

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I too would suggest rspec.

Sean.

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> On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 5:49 AM, Artem Chernikov [skullzeek@gmail.com](mailto:skullzeek@gmail.com) wrote:
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> > I would say that rspec is more suitable for the task - has more features and more or less standard de-facto right now in many ruby projects.
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> > On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 1:59 AM Matt Jones [mattjones@yieldbot.com](mailto:mattjones@yieldbot.com) wrote:
> > 
> > > I have has several people ask me this week about a testing framework or at least if we wanted minitest or rspec.
> 
> > > For the record I don’t have a preference but we should pick one and stick to it. I believe minitest is wining the race right now but I could be wrong.
> 
> > >
> 
> > > Currently when doing PR’s against the new repos tests are not required but very strongly encouraged and most pr’s are including them.
> 
> > >
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> > > Thoughts?
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> > >
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> > > –  
> > > Matt Jones @DevopsMatt
> 
> > > Infrastructure Engineer - [Yieldbot Inc.](http://yieldbot.com/)
> 
> > > Core Contributor - [Sensu Plugins](http://sensu-plugins.github.io/)
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> > >