Comments on: RSpec, JRuby and Story Testing Java Code

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:10:56 +0000

Yes I think FIT fading is a shame. It was/is a great idea. I still think its less brittle then this. This is good for over-the-shoulder scenario testing though.

By: Sanj

Sanj — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:51:14 +0000

Hey Robert,

Instinct is pretty cool. We used it on a major project we did recently and it held up really well. You should give it a go.

http://code.google.com/p/instinct/

Cheers,

Sanj

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:53:37 +0000

I put a note about this post to the RSpec users group, and Ola Bini did indeed reply with a reference to “JTestR”:http://jtestr.codehaus.org/. However, I didn’t find it before I did this work.

JTestR is brand new – version 0.1 was released 28/12/2008. I’m going to check it out, and if it’s mature enough, move to it – I’ll definitely be keeping an eye on it.

I’m ashamed to admit it, but I haven’t looked at Instinct yet; I missed that AJUG meeting. However, as my primary interest is having tools to work with (as opposed to writing it), I doubt I’d be able to get the motivation required to lure me away from World Of Warcraft.

By: Tom Adams

Tom Adams — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:43:19 +0000

Hi Robert,

I’d thought Ola Bini had covered using RSpec to spec out Java code, but perhaps not.

If you’re interested in literate specification for Java (and perhaps Scala) code, might I suggest you create an interface/API for this on top of Instinct? It’s a feature I’d like to see round out Instinct’s feature set and not something that is that high on my personal priority list.

Cheers,
Tom