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Re: [xsl] xslt test automation

2010-11-30 15:39:15
On Tue, Nov 30 2010 17:45:14 +0000, wapiez(_at_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com wrote:
...
After reading this again I decided it doesn't give enough credit to
the excellent (and unpaid) work that has been done in this area. I
have used Xspec (by Jeni Tennison with some help from others), and I
think it's great; nor do I have anything bad to say about other
similar initiatives.

The fact that they aren't more comprehensive than they are, however, I
attribute to the factors I mentioned, namely that the *motivation* for
a project this complex is an important consideration, both for
development and long-term support. Every project, that is, needs a
sustainability model.

Sometimes it comes down to itches and scratches.  XSpec probably exists
because Jeni's earlier, untitled XSLT testing framework didn't properly
scratch her itch for XSLT testing, particularly after seeing the BDD
slant on testing, and XSpec 0.2 is mostly due to Florent having the itch
to extend XSpec to handle XQuery, and a few other improvements happened
along the way because people had an itch to do something.

That projects aren't more comprehensive than they are may be because
no-one's had the itch to do more (or they've had more urgent itches).
There are myriad open-source projects, not just in the XSLT testing
arena, that start as personal projects made public for other people to
use and tinker with where the development plateaus when the project
works well enough for the purposes of the authors.  Projects don't need
a sustainability model when the authors are happy with the status quo
but, being open source, if you have the itch to take a quiescent project
to the next level, there's often a low barrier to becoming a committer
for such a project, and there's always the option of forking the code if
the current project isn't going to go anywhere.

Regards,


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