Posted by: fijiaaron | October 9, 2008

Concordian – Fit style acceptance tests

Concordion is an open source framework for Java that lets you turn a plain English description of a requirement into an automated test — an active specification

A nice looking tool with the right philosophy.  I particularly like in their example the simple method of providing links to manual and automated tests, as well as listing what’s out of scope.

My only criticism is that I think you eventually outgrow wikis.   You start wanting to calculate test run results, or asssociate different test data, or something, so a richer client is needed.  I haven’t solved that yet.


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  1. A good article where I found out about concordian:

    http://www.testingreflections.com/node/view/6704

    Contrast the activity oriented approach with STIQ, which is very task oriented, and I think loses a lot of the value of fitnesse. Again, probably at least in part to the weakness of the wiki.


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