What Is The One True LanguageFor Writing Tests
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What are the barriers to multi-lingual dev/testing?
- Willingness to innovate
- Wrong organizational assumptions
What are the "enablers" to ease the transition?
- a "champion" person for the technology
- radical vs. progressive change steps
- changing the way people think for sustainability
- "evolution vs revolution"
What makes a good test language?
- expressive
- shows intent
- human readable
- "literate"
- quick to write
- tells you why the tests broke
- easy to maintain/refactor
- facilitates exploratory testing
- no/low "context switch"
- uses a
"full""real" language - natural to extend
- no "mental gymnastics"