Simon Willison’s Weblog

rlisagor’s freshen. A Python clone of Ruby’s innovative Cucumber testing framework. Tests are defined as a set of plain-text scenarios, which are then executed by being matched against test functions decorated with regular expressions. Has anyone used this or Cucumber? I’m intrigued but unconvinced—are the plain text scenarios really a useful way of defining tests?

# 5th January 2010, 7:30 pm / cucumber, testing, bdd, ruby, python, freshen, unittests