From: Ken Bloom <kbloom@...>
Date: 2008-11-19T11:06:30+09:00
Subject: Re: I don't like specs, should I change my point of view ?

On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:49:51 -0500, James Gray wrote:

> On Nov 18, 2008, at 3:56 AM, Zouplaz wrote:
> 
>> Hello, I'm not trolling. I don't like specs (RSpec) : everytime I had a
>> look to specs I felt it was only syntaxic sugar driven by a big
>> machinery and I continued to write classic unit tests.
>>
>> But I've seen more and more projects using rspec - So I consider beeing
>> wrong about this software.
>>
>> Do you have any link to articles that advocates for or against specs ?
> 
> I think this is a great read:
> 
> http://pragdave.blogs.pragprog.com/pragdave/2008/03/the-language-in.html
> 
> James Edward Gray II

I've read that before. Can anyone defend rspec against that attack? What 
does rspec do better? I want to get a better idea of why they invented 
this quasi-English framework.

--Ken

-- 
Chanoch (Ken) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/