[TIP] Testify

C. Titus Brown ctb at msu.edu
Mon Nov 1 19:32:20 PDT 2010


On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 10:15:55AM -0700, Rhett Garber wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 5:30 PM, C. Titus Brown <ctb at msu.edu> wrote:
> 
> > So we have a bunch of nearly identical test frameworks, all with
> > slight syntactic differences, all serving nearly the same purpose within
> > slightly different constraints, with various levels of internal mungery.
> > People keep on telling me that their framework or approach is better,
> > or somehow rawks, but since they mostly decline to document this
> > simply enough for me to understand, or seem to regard arbitrary design
> > decisions and limitations as an "improvement", I remain unconvinced.
> > One more is hardly a catastrophe, I guess.
> 
> I'm going to argue just because I enjoy it, but keep in mind I'm not actually
> trying to convert people to a new Testify-based religion. The fact
> that it solves
> the needs of Yelp's development team is sufficient reason for it's existence.

Amen to that -- that *is* sufficient :)

--titus
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C. Titus Brown, ctb at msu.edu



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