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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Jeff Younker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeff@drinktomi.com" target="_blank">jeff@drinktomi.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>On Aug 31, 2009, at 10:34 AM, yoav glazner wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Well i sphinx lib is great but i guess this battle is lost, I'll write the ATP in word =(<br>one thing i don't get is my company is the only company the wants this stupid documents?<br>
<br>all testing packages in python just let you write tests easily and don't care about non-programmers that want to review the tests.<br>this is fine by me but not my bosses...<br><br>I'll like to have some input on this, what is the standard?<br>
</blockquote><br></div>There are multiple kinds of tests. All the tools that people tend to bandy<br>about here are made for unit testing. Unit tests are intended to be<br>written by programmers and for programmers. They test whether the code<br>
conforms to the programmer's expectations.<br><br>What you seem to be asking about are acceptance tests. Acceptance<br>tests are intended to be used as communication between customers<br>and developers. Really the only acceptance testing framework of any<br>
consequence which is available in Python in Fit. Try taking a look at<br>it. Also, consider getting the FitNesse book. You'll really need this book<br>if you're to take advantage of Fit.<br><font color="#888888"><br>
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<div><br>We tried PyFit and it was very lame, the error reporting about exceptions was terrible, it was not easy to work with.</div>
<div>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 </div>
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<div>PyFit/ Fittness is really the only way to go?</div></div></div><br></div>