I once saw a TV show about competing groups of archeologists trying to demonstrate how the ancient Egyptians raised stone obelisks weighing hundreds of tons. One group of archeologists built a complex apparatus involving a wooden frame and lots of rope. It looked impressive, but it didn’t work. The other team built a sand pit,…
I’ve been thinking a lot about testing frameworks over the past six months, and I’m not the only Stuart doing that. Stuart Halloway, who spent some time on his own Clojure testing framework, Circumspec, recently wrote about his experiences refactoring some of the language tests included with Clojure. One of Stu’s first points is that…