Software Carpentry QMTest Testing Tool Released

soundsop writes: "The first tool resulting from the winners of a design competition by the Software Carpentry project has been released. The QMTest tool is a testing tool to replace software such as XUnit, Expect and DejaGnu. An issue tracking tool, called QMTrack (a la Bugzilla) is forthcoming. It looks like the winning design proposals for a config tool (autoconf replacement) and a build tool (make replacement) are not being implemented."

Comments

Replacing Expect? It's not a testing tool.

[jdavidb]

Kudos to the QMTest folks; I'm looking forward
to the fruits of the software carpentry project. But, as Expect is an
automation tool, not simply a testing tool, I don't think it'll exactly be "replaced."
The well-known DejaGNU suite, written in Expect, might be a candidate for replacement, though.

I use Expect all the time, but have never used it for testing. I tried DejaGNU a time or two,
but never could figure it out. If you like Expect and like Perl, you might check out the
Expect.pm module project; it's really come to fruition recently, and
I've finally started doing that kind of thing in Perl instead of TCL/Expect.