Gojko Adzic

I finally had some time to take a look at Concordion, an acceptance testing tool that I’ve heard about on several conferences. Concordion is an interesting alternative to FIT. It is developed by David Peterson and released under the Apache opensource license. Similar to FIT, Concordion uses HTML documents as an executable specification and requires some glue code (fixtures) to connect the executable elements of that specification to the domain code. Unlike FIT, Concordion does not require the specification to be in any particular format — you can write examples as normal sentences, without any restrictions. Continue Reading »

During the Agile 2008 conference, Mike Stockdale organised a mini-session where he and Rick Mugridge presented some new features and ideas that they are working on at the moment. The session led to a very interesting discussion on whether we could produce a variant of domain adapter/domain fixtures that allows FIT to connect directly to most domain services and objects without the need for any fixtures. Continue Reading »

During his Executable User Stories with RSpec and BDD session at Agile 2008 today,
Aslak Hellesøy presented Cucumber, a new rewrite of RSpec Story Runner. According to Aslak, Cucumber is easier to use than the previous Story Runner. It also supports internationalisation, executing from the command line or rake, has colour coding and better error reporting. Continue Reading »

I had a really great time today at Tesco.Com — thanks for inviting me to talk about acceptance testing and thanks again for the champagne. Here are the slides and links from the talk:

• L.G.Shattuck — Communicating Intent and Imparting Presence
• William Crain — The Mission: The Dilemma of Specified Task and Implied Commander’s Intent
• James Shore: How I use Fit
• FitNesse.Org — main FitNesse web site
• Fitnesse.info — Community site with lots of examples
• Fixture gallery — copy-paste examples for all important FIT fixture types

Here’s the video from last week’s Effective .NET Test Driven Development FitNesse workshop. The workshop focused on introducing agile acceptance testing and working with FitNesse, with best practices and ideas how to use fixtures efficiently. The recording is about two hours long.
See also:

• Key ideas from the workshop
• Source code and the missing example