Archive for March, 2010

  • I got this question from a blog reader recently: I just wanted your opinion on SLIM as opposed to standard FIT/Fitnesse. Are there things that can only be done via the FIT/Fitnesse route that cannot be done via SLIM? So for acceptance tests and integration tests can I just use...

    FIT vs SLIM

    I got this question from a blog reader recently: I just wanted your opinion on SLIM as opposed to standard FIT/Fitnesse. Are there things that can only be done via the FIT/Fitnesse route that cannot be done via SLIM? So for acceptance tests and integration tests can I just use...

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  • I just pushed a small change to JUnit integration support for FitNesse to github; hopefully this should be merged with Uncle Bob’s master branch soon. The change enables you to output test run stats in Junit XML files, which can then be picked up by Hudson, TeamCity and other CI...

    Generating JUnit XML output files from FitNesse

    I just pushed a small change to JUnit integration support for FitNesse to github; hopefully this should be merged with Uncle Bob’s master branch soon. The change enables you to output test run stats in Junit XML files, which can then be picked up by Hudson, TeamCity and other CI...

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  • Here’s a video from a joint workshop that David Evans, Mike Scott and I organised yesterday at Skills Matter. We talked about strategies to get the most out of acceptance tests (especially with FitNesse) and organised a group workshop to review some good and bad examples of acceptance tests –...

    Acceptance testing best practices

    Here’s a video from a joint workshop that David Evans, Mike Scott and I organised yesterday at Skills Matter. We talked about strategies to get the most out of acceptance tests (especially with FitNesse) and organised a group workshop to review some good and bad examples of acceptance tests –...

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  • While doing research for my new book, I was very surprised to find out that Jim Shore gave up on acceptance testing. I use his “describe-demonstrate-develop” process description all the time in my workshops, so I guess I better stop doing that. Jim Shore wrote: My experience with Fit and...

    Are tools necessary for acceptance testing, or are they just evil?

    While doing research for my new book, I was very surprised to find out that Jim Shore gave up on acceptance testing. I use his “describe-demonstrate-develop” process description all the time in my workshops, so I guess I better stop doing that. Jim Shore wrote: My experience with Fit and...

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