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PowerSlim small (1 min) intro video
The main idea of the PowerSlim is to use the PowerShell scripting language. I realised that an acceptance test is nothing more than SUT and environment administration, while dealing with acceptance testing for the last 5 years. Check out my small post about the HLT pattern. So why don’t use the power of the administrative languages like PowerShell?
Actually, the road to PowerSlim was started at 2006, when the .NET implementation of the Fitnesse fixtures – PowerShellRow, PowerShellColumn and etc. were written by me. Then it became possible to write something like this “start-service MyService” on the Fitnesse page instead of a fixture in the implementation code. So the tests have become more transparent. Please, keep the HLT pattern in mind! It should always be possible to deal with a SUT in such a “simple” way. There is something wrong with your production design, if it isn’t. But don’t worry. You are still able to write a “nonadministrative” code with the PowerShell (e.g. (new-object MyClass).CreateJob())
First of all, don’t treat this one as a new acceptance testing framework (ATF). It is a small but powerful plugin for the Fitnesse ATF.
The current implementation is pure PowerShell implementation.
The project is hosted on GitHub.
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