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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. Re:Good news by topologist · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I'm not certain why the parent was moderated as "informative"..it's clearly just a bunch of superficially technical sentences strung together to make it look interesting, but it has nothing to do with JUnit. And what's a signal NP-17? (Null Pointer SIGUSR2? grin).