testdriven.com Wrangling quality out of chaos

In XP, automatic testing of the produced software takes a central role in the development process. For unit tests, there are a multitude of freely available testing frameworks for many programming languages while there seems to be a complete lack of available testing frameworks for automating acceptance tests. At the department of Computer Science, Lund University, we felt the need for a light-weight acceptance testing framework that could be used in both students programming projects courses and in our own research projects.
This paper discusses the thoughts behind, and the implementation of, JaTack, a very lightweight framework for automating acceptance tests for batch-oriented programs.

Anders Nilsson
LUCAS – Center for Applied Software Research
August 2002
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