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Why We Refactored JUnit

Posted by Hemos on from the because-you're-maschoists dept.

Bill Venners writes "In this article, three programmers tell the story of how their frustration with JUnit's API led to the creation of Artima SuiteRunner, a free, open source test toolkit and JUnit runner. These programmers simply wanted to create a small add-on tool to JUnit, but found JUnit's design non-intuitive and API documention poor. After spending time reading through JUnit's source code and attempting to guess at the API contracts, they gave up and rewrote it."

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  1. I wish... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I could refactor my unit.

    1. Re:I wish... by Forgotten · · Score: 5, Funny

      You could, if you'd just read your spam before deleting it.

  2. hrm.... by xao+gypsie · · Score: 5, Funny

    why does this sound like something of the beginning of a fantasy story about programming: "in the beginning was Iluvitar, the master of the JU API........then melkor, wishing to expand it...."

    xao

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  3. Re: Intuitive by Black+Parrot · · Score: 5, Funny


    > Recursion is intuitive but...

    You've obviously never tried to explain recursion to a group of average co-workers.

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  4. Re:genericity in testing by thempstead · · Score: 5, Funny
    Then you correct the code so the test passes.

    nonono ... you correct the test so the code passes ...