Quarry 0.5.2

Quarry 0.5.2 is an extremely powerful utility for developers. It is actually a BDD/TDD framework that can frees you of strict nomenclatures, opening up vast reserves in test ore and behavior mining. Quarry uses a literate programming model that eliminates the barriers on how to describe your specifications and unit tests, leading to a proverbial gold mine in systems documentation.

Major Features:

Quarry's BDD/TDD system is unique in many ways.

1. Firstly:
   • It does not enforce a BDD or TDD perspective, but leaves that choice up to the programmer and the case at hand, by supporting a diversified set of "this-is-so" methods.
   • Quarry's defacto terminology is expected because it is suitable to both testers and specifiers. And Quarry full supports assert and should nomenclatures as well for those atone to those particular perspectives.
2. Secondly:
   • Quarry's specifications are an application of literate programming. As such, they are completely free-form. In other words, unlike other BDD/TDD systems, Quarry has no special organization domain language. Instead specifications are simply text/markup files (typically RDoc format).
   • Quarry also provides a flexible test-double facility consisting of stubs, light-weight mocks and spies. These are very flexible tools. For instance, a Quarry stub can act as a revaluble module or automatically via object's singleton class.
   • Quarry actually discourages the use of mocks as they are traditionally understood, because they create overly tight coupling between specification and implementation. But Quarry provides light-weight mocks that are in effect pre-asserted stubs.
3. Lastly
   • A method-probe/test-spy is also under development, which can be used to dip-down into a method and provide a readout of the methods signatures.
   • Also in the works is an embedded test/spec extraction tool. This allows tests/specs to be embedded in block comments, which can be a very convenient means to provide unit test/specs.

Requirements:

• Mac OS X