Like testing, simplicity and whatnot? Enter delicious

Well, delicious is just yet another take on a testing framework (dare to call it one!) that doesn't make all the stuff non-funny.

First things first, here you go:

• it has:

  • a funnier approach to it all
  • colored output
  • fancy Unicode characters (✔ when you're right)

• child steps:

  • no integration to whatever
  • no exception filtering
  • no(t much) features

But it's fun, anyway :)

How it feels

Here's the code (always first)

describe HappilyAfter do
    it "is a Happy Ending" do
        true.must.be true
    end

    it "is something" do
        # @topic is the class you're describing
        @topic.is_a?(Class).must.be.true
    end

    it "is not so smart by now" do
        false.should.be true # again, ouch!
        true.should.be true
    end
end

How it should be

Of course there should be less issues and more fun to it, but for now the testsuite should be longer than the actual code and I should have fun with it.

You're invited, too, so join the party!

A little bit of history

So there was/is Test::Unit, and MiniTest. But they just seem not to match my kind of way. So, along the way (of course not testing/spec'ing anything) I read a little bit about RSpec and even a little bit of Cucumber, recently, but RSpec wants to have install 3 gems just to make feel a little safer and Cucumber even more (I suppose) and it just feels not-at-home.

And I somehow tend to want to write everything just by myself and now, here is my little (very few lines) only spec testing thing. It's not even a gem by now, but it does do a few things I like:

• should ( and should.not and should.be and so.on)
• (almost) no requirements. (colored, yes, but that should be in ruby-core [1] anyway, right? :)
• it' unfinished (I don't like that actually, but that is what it tends to be mostly.)

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