Fit for Developing Software: Framework for Integrated Tests

Robert C. Martin Series

by Rick Mugridge, Ward Cunningham

The Fit open source testing framework brings unprecedented agility to the entire development process. Fit for Developing Software shows you how to use Fit to clarify business rules, express them with concrete examples, and organize the examples into test tables that drive testing throughout the software lifecycle. Using a realistic case study, Rick Mugridge and Ward Cunningham--the creator of Fit--introduce each of Fit's underlying concepts and techniques, and explain how you can put Fit to work incrementally, with the lowest possible risk. Highlights include

Integrating Fit into your development processes Using Fit to promote effective communication between businesspeople, testers, and developers Expressing business rules that define calculations, decisions, and business processes Connecting Fit tables to the system with "fixtures" that check whether tests are actually satisfied Constructing tests for code evolution, restructuring, and other changes to legacy systems Managing the quality and evolution of tests A companion Web site ( that offers additional resources and source code

Genres: Technology, Software, Computer Science, Programming, Technical

352 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 1, 2005

About the author

Rick Mugridge runs his own company, Rimu Research, and is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He specializes in Agile software development, automated testing, test-driven development, and user interfaces. Rick is one of the world's leading developers of Fit fixtures and tools, and is the creator of the FitLibrary.

Reviews

[Henrik Dohlmann · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cool way to let the users formulate tests.

[Jean Tessier]

The book was OK. It is kinda strange, the first half is for non-technical people, like business analysts and such, and teaches them to organize tests and test data into tables and HTML pages. Then, about half-way through, it finally starts to address the technical issues regarding how you realize those tables with supporting Java code. The last few chapters go into more details about the architecture of FIT and the flow between some of the pieces. The book talks a lot about FIT and much less about FitNesse.

It so happens that I saw a presentation by Rick Mugridge on 2006 / 02 / 09. He spent most of the time extolling the virtues of testing. I would have liked to get more details about how FIT is implemented and the lifecycle of various objects. I guess it wasn't that kind of talk.

It is not my favorite book of all times, but it is the only one on FIT at this time.