Coding

I've posted before on Fitnesse. Thinking more about it I think it does have one advantage over NUnit and unit testing.

When you are writing unit tests there are two ways that end up being used.

• Development phase - test first, then code
• Code coverage shows wholes in test strategy - code first, then write test
• Bugs - code first. Then when detected write the test to show its existance and a test to show it has been fixed.

In almost all these cases the test gets written with inside knowledge of how the code works. In the development phase there is a lot of iteration between test and code. Similarly with the test second approach.

Fitnesse is different. The tests get written without any assumptions as to how the code is going to work. That is a significant difference.