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[yoav glazner]

 On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Jeff Younker <jeff at drinktomi.com> wrote:

> On Aug 31, 2009, at 10:34 AM, yoav glazner wrote:
>
> Well i sphinx lib is great but i guess this battle is lost, I'll write the
>> ATP in word =(
>> one thing i don't get is my company is the only company the wants this
>> stupid documents?
>>
>> all testing packages in python just let you write tests easily and don't
>> care about non-programmers that want to review the tests.
>> this is fine by me but not my bosses...
>>
>> I'll like to have some input on this, what is the standard?
>>
>
> There are multiple kinds of tests.  All the tools that people tend to bandy
> about here are made for unit testing. Unit tests are intended to be
> written by programmers and for programmers.  They test whether the code
> conforms to the programmer's expectations.
>
> What you seem to be asking about are acceptance tests.  Acceptance
> tests are intended to be used as communication between customers
> and developers.   Really the only acceptance testing framework of any
> consequence which is available in Python in Fit.  Try taking a look at
> it.  Also, consider getting the FitNesse book.  You'll really need this
> book
> if you're to take advantage of Fit.
>
> -jeff
>
>
We tried PyFit and it was very lame, the error reporting about exceptions
was terrible, it was not easy to work with.
I guess what we need here is something like a DSL that seems like English
and can be easy converted into testing code with regular asserts and
behaviors of unittest capabilities

PyFit/ Fittness is really the only way to go?
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