After reading about Behaviour Driven Development , using jMock for a while, and since I am very fond of Ruby ’s core class API s, I am sure the assertations of JUnit need a major overhaul.
This are the goals I have for the redesign:
Make the code expressive and as readable as possbile. This means the code should look like plain english.
Usability is more important than flexibility.
Allow for much more poweful checks.
Usability is very important. The good thing is that it is easy to analyze how JUnit is used (download some test driven developed open source projects, grep for assertTrue, and there you have all the cases where JUnit’s asserts were not good enough )
I am playing around with a few ideas, and this is the API I am currently after:
Assertions Example Usage
public void testInt() {
int num = 4+1;
ensure(num).is(5);
ensure(num).either(4, 5, 6);
ensure(num).between(3, 1...
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Post Date: 2006-08-02 00:55:25
Recently there has been quite a bit of fuss about Behaviour Driven Development . So, what is it all about? You should have a look at that presentation from Dave Astels , it is quite interesting:
Presentation: “Beyond Test Driven Development: Behaviour Driven Development”
You can also view and download the video here .
What this is about?
In short, Behaviour Driven Development can be summarized into just one sentence:
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