Another friend from work sent me an MSN link last Friday about an interview with the guy who created TestNG (a JUnit replacement) that allows for a few things beyond what JUnit can provide. The thing that piqued my interest was that it allows distribution of tests on slave machines, beanshell integration, and dependent methods for application server testing. Also, that TestNG is designed to cover all categories of tests: unit, functional, end-to-end, integration, etc. So I can get someone to create data driven or keyword driven tests and I can remotely execute them. I may not need FiT to do it now!Anyway, I need to try this out. It would be nice to get this to be used for the simple remote execution aspect. I can then have unit tests tested across multiple environments and centrally controlled, rather than the other way around.
Oh! The creator of TestNG guy also has a great post about how TDD is not the end-all for software development; the anti-TDD movement. Interesting to see that they consider TDD just another tool in the toolbox.
More contemplation is required here for sure. But all really good information about how software development does coincide with testing on many levels.
Oh, here's an aside - I used to help teach people how to do TDD. Mostly as a 2 hour seminar. I'm going to redo the seminar to use testNG now so I can show off the evolution of test tools. I think there's a thought-lock on using xUnit for applications. How I see it, things change and sometimes its good to update the tools. This will be my way of evaluating this tool and I'll let you know how it goes.
