[chef-dev] More Test Kitchen support and examples

[Joshua Timberman < >]

Ohai Chefs!

In case you haven't yet seen it, we have a blog post that describes adding 
and embellishing tests in the Opscode apache2 cookbook.

* http://www.opscode.com/blog/2012/10/19/testing-opscodes-apache2-cookbook/

The erlang and rabbitmq cookbooks are now updated with test-kitchen support. 
If you're looking for more examples of how to approach adding minitest-chef 
tests to your cookbooks, these two should be very helpful. While the tests 
are in two places - the cookbook's files directory and the cookbook's "test" 
cookbook files directory, the reason for this is because of how 
minitest-chef-handler determines whether to run tests.

* http://bit.ly/TyOXar ;(erlang, COOK-1782)
* http://bit.ly/T6x4DF ;(rabbitmq, COOK-1684, COOK-1724)

Several folks are interested in talking more about cookbook testing at the 
Chef Summit next week. I'm excited for the summit itself and this discussion.

Finally, if you haven't yet taken the node attribute symbols vs strings vs 
methods survey, please do. It should take less than 20 seconds.

* 
http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/1059291/FC001-Use-strings-in-preference-to-symbols-to-access-node-attributes

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