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Short description of the various tests (testunit, minitest) typically found in a Rails app
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  • Unit tests are very narrowly focused on testing a single model
  • Functional tests are very narrowly focused on testing a single controller and the interactions between the models it employs
  • Integration tests are broad story-level tests that verify the interactions between the various actions supported by the application, across all controllers
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