In article <20011108133932.46514.qmail / web13905.mail.yahoo.com>, chad fowler <chadfowler / yahoo.com> wrote: > >Brian, perhaps, being the testing-focused guy that you >are, you could start the ball rolling by brainstorming >some nice-to-have testing software that could be >implemented in Ruby. > >A scan through RAA shows these testing-related items: >TestSupp (test case automation) >RubyUnit (Unit testing framework) >Lapidary (Unit testing framework) >WebUnit (testing of web applications) >Rubicon (Test suite for Ruby itself) >Ruby/Mock (Mock object library) >walkit (Unit testing framework) > >With the exception of WebUnit (perhaps) it seems that >there's a gap in higher level functional testing >tools(vs. unit testing tools). > You're right. We have a plethora of unit testing (whitebox) options. The system I'm working on called dTest (Distributed Test System) is intended for higher level functional testing of applications. I'll try to post more details about it in the next few days. Phil -- rm -rf /bin/laden