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Writing Maintainable Automated Acceptance Tests.

Uncle Bob — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:54:42 -0600

Dale Emery recently wrote a lovely article that has the same name as this blog. This article is really quite good. It makes the point that writing acceptance tests is writing software; and so the same principles of cohesion, coupling, DRY, etc. apply.

The only problem I had with Dale’s article, is that he used the wrong tool to demonstrate his principles. So I’ve created a video to show you how to apply Dale’s principles using FitNesse. (See below)

I’ve included three different sources for the video. One of them ought to work for you. The higest resolution video is the quicktime/screencast version; but some people can’t use it. So choose your poison.

Viddler

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Vimeo

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Writing Maintainable Automated Acceptance Tests from unclebob on Vimeo.

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