[Gardeners] Testing Frameworks Report Page

[Marco Antoniotti]

On Jan 20, 2006, at 12:00 AM, Larry Clapp wrote:

> On 2006-01-19, Marco Antoniotti
> <marcoxa at cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
>> Gary King wrote:
>>> SUnit == Smalltalk Unit ==> Java Unit == JUnit. I believe SUnit was
>>> the Kent Beck's first unit testing framework.
>>
>> Ok.  But then I fail to see wheter this is relevant too as a
>> "defining" feature.  After all RT predates SUnit stuff.
>
> If someone knows xUnit (and people interested in testing packages
> probably will[1]) then they can probably pick up xlunit or some other
> xUnit descendent pretty quickly.  When they're ready for the
> (arguably?) more powerful or more Lispy packages, they'll know where
> to look.  :)
>
> -- L
>
> [1] I have no proof for this assertion, only the observation that Java
> currently appears more popular than Lisp, and JUnit appears (to me) as
> the clear leader of Java testing frameworks.

Yes.  But also the opposite may happen.  "This is not xUnit based, 
hence is less modern/powerful/etc/etc".

I am sorry to be such a PITA, but I am just trying to say that 
classifications should be neutral as much as possible.

Cheers


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