"Speaking of which, I wish they would disclose whether (and how much) the judges are paid."
I'm a judge. I'm not paid anything.
I'm a judge of the testing tool, which I hope doesn't cause as much excitement as make. For the record, I think JUnit, expect, and dejaGNU are all wonderful things. I agreed to be a judge not out of any disrespect to their authors. To me, Kent Beck / Erich Gamma in particular are way up there in the pantheon. JUnit, Extreme Programming, and all that are the most exciting things to have happened to testing in quite a while.
If someone comes up with a better extension or replacement, the testing world will be better off. If not, it will get ignored, with little or no harm done.
Python Promotion: I think it's important that tools have a good scripting language. I think using the same one across a suite of related tools is a win. I prefer Python to Perl or TCL (and Lisp to Python). But I probably would have been a judge even if the language were Perl, and I'm sure my Python bias was unknown when I was asked to be a judge.
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"Speaking of which, I wish they would disclose whether (and how much) the judges are paid."
I'm a judge. I'm not paid anything.
I'm a judge of the testing tool, which I hope doesn't cause as much excitement as make. For the record, I think JUnit, expect, and dejaGNU are all wonderful things. I agreed to be a judge not out of any disrespect to their authors. To me, Kent Beck / Erich Gamma in particular are way up there in the pantheon. JUnit, Extreme Programming, and all that are the most exciting things to have happened to testing in quite a while.
If someone comes up with a better extension or replacement, the testing world will be better off. If not, it will get ignored, with little or no harm done.
JUnit doc: http://members.pingnet.ch/gamma/junit.htmJUnit source: http://www.xprogramming.com/software.htm
Extreme Programming: http://www.xprogramming.com/
Python Promotion: I think it's important that tools have a good scripting language. I think using the same one across a suite of related tools is a win. I prefer Python to Perl or TCL (and Lisp to Python). But I probably would have been a judge even if the language were Perl, and I'm sure my Python bias was unknown when I was asked to be a judge.