"James Mills" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 5:18 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Has PyFIT been completely abandoned? Is there a better alternative or > > other resources to help me integrate fitnesse and python? > > I for one am not interested in this kind of framework for testing - > and yet I come from a strict Software Engineering background where > this kind of User Acceptance and Requirements-based testing is > taught.
How, then, do you automate functional testing of the full system? > I think you'll find most developers prefer to use unit test > frameworks and python has a great one built-in to the standard > library. In 99.9% of use cases, writing unit tests and well > documented and well designed, re-usable units of code is far better > than what any Requirements and Interactive testing framework could > ever offer. I completely disagree. Unit tests are essential for testing code *units*; e.g. functions and classes and attributes (oh my).They're a poor fit for testing the behaviour of the overall system: for that, a functional test suite is needed, and PyFIT seems to be a good . Automated unit tests and automated functional tests are complementary, and do not replace one another. Both are needed to have confidence in the code. -- \ “Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.” | `\ —Henry L. Mencken | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
