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Introduction and Welcome! |
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This site is devoted to an approach to automatic acceptance testing of software, and to a family of open source tools to support that approach. (After complaints that it wasn't obvious how to get support for TextTest, here is a link to the texttest-users mailing list!) We feel that the world still produces way too much software that is frankly substandard. The reasons for this are pretty simple: software producers do not pay enough attention to testing, or rely too heavily on manual testing. Manual testing should be focussed on examining the user experience and finding complex bugs, and too often it is used for simple regression testing : to check that the latest release does not crash on startup. We are warm adherents of agile development practices, and practitioners of Extreme Programming. We believe that the Agile movement has improved the software quality situation a great deal, by moving testing to the centre of the development process and making developers directly responsible for verifying the quality of their code. Since 2000 we have been exploring different ways of creating high-level tests that communicate intent and can be understood and created by non-technical customers (Acceptance Tests). The front end and common factor is a tool called TextTest, which looks like this...
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