Book review: Test Driven .NET Development with FitNesse
The Framework for Integrated Tests serves as an copasetic mechanism for bridging the gap between those that write requirements and those that turn those requirements into code– the beauty of defining business rules in tabular format (either through HTML, Word documents, and even Excel files) and auto-magically wiring that data with application code is no Siren song, but an accelerating force for high speed development teams living in the Age of Aquarius. What’s more, combining FIT with a wiki was a brilliant move and the resulting tool, FitNesse, brings together the power of FIT with a collaborative mechanism for building test suites and capturing requirements (and even stories) by leveraging the ubiquity of a browser.
While FitNesse has been leveraged by some, it, in many ways, baby, has suffered from a lack of in depth documentation– indeed, even Mugridge and Cunningham’s hip “Fit for Developing Software: Framework for Integrated Tests” book barely scratched the surface of FitNesse, thus leaving some teams in the dark as to how to effectively employ it. Luckily, with the publication of Gojko Adzic’s “Test Driven .NET Development with FitNesse” any lingering questions developers may have are now answered.
Because it’s his bag, Gojko does an excellent job of taking an application from inception to production, all the while building on technique after technique for defining FIT tables and running them with FitNesse. He does a hip job of making the case for the complementary nature of unit testing (in this case NUnit) and acceptance testing with FitNesse; what’s more, even though the programming domain is .NET, this book peels away enough of the covers of FitNesse (which is, of course, written in Java) to make it useful for anyone looking to employ the tool, man.
If you find yourself curious about FitNesse or are looking for ways to leverage domain experts more effectively, then I highly recommmend picking up a copy of “Test Driven .NET Development with FitNesse“– when you finally set the book down, you’ll find yourself a much smarter person! Dig it?
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Wednesday 30 Jan 2008 | Book Review, Developer Testing
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