Comments on: FIT vs SLIM

By: gojko

gojko — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:06:18 +0000

fitlibrary is opensource, so you can take imagefixture and convert it to slim

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 08:40:36 +0000

When using fit, I can compare images via ImageFixture, but it seems not possible in slim. Can you give me some help? Thanks very much.

By: Dale King

Dale King — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:49:23 +0000

Having recently started learning Fitnesse starting out with Slim, I can tell you that Slim is not capable of handling anything but the simplest of tests. It is definitely NOT true that the only thing that Slim is missing is flow mode.

The thing that really burned me was the fact that all matches were done after conversion to string. I wasted lots of time getting my expected values to be in the right format to match what the SUT returned. E.g. The SUT returned 5.0, the expected value was 5. Dates were also a killer. You copy your tables to excel and back and you’re screwed fixing it all over again because Excel did not preserve your formatting of the value.

It seemed like I was working for Slim instead of it working for me.

Unfortunately, FitLibrary is no picnic either. There is a great deal of power, but very little documentation, lots of variation between implementations, and a steep learning curve. It is also hampered with trying to maintain some backwards compatibility with Fit.

I think the time is ripe for a new framework that blends the best of both worlds and that does things the right way and does not care about backwards compatibility.

By: Konstantin Vlasenko

Konstantin Vlasenko — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:28:45 +0000

@gojko I don’t need an additional testing tool. Finesse enough for me.
We don’t use Finesse as a collaboration tool with the stakeholders.
We had used Fitnesse for collaboration before (it is another story…don’t won’t to rise this philosophical question here).
Right now we are using it as Acceptance Testing Framework. Fitnesse is powerful tool for Acceptance/Regression testing.

By: gojko

gojko — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:02:36 +0000

@Konstantin – if this is something that has to be done for a bigger business test to work, i’d hide it in a fixture and make the fitnesse page easier to read and understand. if this is your whole test, you will be able to maintain it a lot easier in a technical testing tool. the benefit that fitnesse gives you – communication with budiness people, is completely lost there