Rethinking the xUnit Model - a case study with @duncanmcg

Topic: Rethinking the xUnit Model - a case study

Not much has changed in xUnit testing since 1989 - we still define tests as methods of a class, and the test fixture as fields of that class. As a result things like nesting contexts, reusing fixtures, repeating tests, allowing failures etc, all require the test framework to provide special handling. Spec tests generally provide more structure, but their fixture lifecycle becomes confused, which prevents reuse.

In this session we’ll work as groups to see what features we want from a test framework and whether and how our existing tools provide them. Then Duncan will try to convince us that the recently released Minutest Kotlin library has a model worth learning and adopting for all of our testing needs.

https://twitter.com/ianrohdebell/status/1092893983272026112

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