Entries from June 2006

Running FitNesse tests from the command line with PyFIT

Date June 21, 2006 by Isaac

I’m really starting to get into this whole FIT/FitNesse thing. Creating test cases is now easy and my managers love the HTML documentation and results that come out of the tools. Until now I’ve just been using FitNesse, but thanks to the hard work of Grig Gheorghiu and John Roth (the PyFIT author) [...]

Bit by Unicode

Date June 21, 2006 by Isaac

I was pretty proud of my latest Python script, which was designed to test a CORBA object. However, when I tried to run the script it gave me some obfuscated errors and died. So, for the last couple days I’ve been trying to figure out why my script was dying. It turns [...]

Mounting an ISO image under Windows

Date June 19, 2006 by Isaac

I’m a big fan of the KISS principle, so when I run into a utility that is simple, yet effective, I jump all over it. Recently, I found one such utility from Microsoft of all places.
The problem is that occasionally I need to mount an ISO image so I can access it like a [...]

Using fixtures from within a SequenceFixture

Date June 12, 2006 by Isaac

The FIT SequenceFixture is essentially the same as a DoFixture. I just like the way commands are written better. One of the cool things about a SequenceFixture (or DoFixture) is that it allows you to use other fixture types from within. So, you could have a RowFixture running some tests then decide [...]