Harley Green on FIT - Framework for Integrated Testing

Intended Audience:
Software developers with some prior experience with .NET.

Description:
Fit is an automated requirements validation and verification testing toolkit. In the context of software requirements, Validation is about asking the question "Are we building the right product?" while Verification is about asking "Are we building the product right?" Fit4Net helps to answer both these questions by providing a standard way for business users, in collaboration with the software development team, to define in concrete terms what they expect of the target system.

Using Fit, requirements are at least partially specified using tables. The framework provides support for parsing the tables, which are then used as inputs for tests written by the software developers. As such, Fit supports the Validation process, by ensuring that functionality is defined in such a way that it is unambiguous to both client and developer and supports Verification by providing the infrastructure to test the implementation against these requirements in an automated fashion.

The greatest strength of Fit, is the simplicity of the tests, and their accessibility to the business users. Non-technical users can edit the test inputs, and run the tests themselves, providing additional input in the form of boundary conditions, unusual conditions, or failing conditions, to ensure that the requirements cover as many scenarios as possible.

Presenter:
Harley Green is a senior consultant with Statera, a leading business and technology services and solutions provider. He has been eveloping software since 2000 and has been using FIT and associated frameworks since he first stumbled across them 3 years ago. He is the author of a new .net port of FIT www.fit4net.org that attempts to improve the user experience using a more consistent approach to writing fixtures.

Topics:
Fit4Net - Framework for Integrated Testing

Links:
FIT www.fit4net.org

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