Nov122006

A Tool Experiment

So, I haven’t blogged in a while. Here’s what’s taking a lot of my free time:

I’m currently writing a home-grown testing tool I hope will be useful. It’s supposed to be a tool similar to Jester, mutating your sourcecode to test your unit tests. The difference between my tool and Jester is that my tool will take a less quantitative approach (ie., it will give no ”score”) and will let the test writers decide exactly what information is important. As the title suggests, this is a “tool experiment,” so I can’t guarantee it will be any more useful than Jester. However, I have a hunch that it might, so it’s worth writing.

If you have any suggestions or would like more information, feel free to comment. Once the tool gets closer to a first release (it’s almost there!) I’ll post more information and a link to the sourcecode.

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