Everyone Else Is Doing It...

There are lots of different testing tools and frameworks out there. Maybe too many. We end up having to use a whole bunch of different tools to test different parts of our projects. In working on LiFT, we've found that for various reasons we're currently tied in to JUnit, and it's quite a lot of work to create a version for TestNG or other frameworks, or to integrate our acceptance tests with jMock etc. Because of these problems we're looking forward to the release of commons.testing, a framework agnostic API for writing tests. This upcoming release was the cause of a lot of buzz at the SPA conference last week.

With its extensive XML configuration support, commons.testing also aims to remove the dependency on writing code, allowing tests to be written by non-programmers. Again very well aligned with LiFT's goals. Look out for more information on this all-encompassing framework soon.