From: ahoward <ahoward@...>
Date: 2003-01-25T06:49:53+09:00
Subject: Re: what's so great about narf?

On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Tom Clarke wrote:

> As an aside, it is completely covered with Unit tests, which makes
> integration of new features somewhat easier.

this is really good - of course.

> Narf testing differs from Web testing in a few ways:
>      a) It's all in process - you don't need to fire up a web server
> (this seems suprisingly helpful)

i can appreciate that - but being somewhat old fashions don't know if i'd
trust it...

>      b) It's integrated with the templates which provides some useful
> testing enchancments and make it much easier to find out what your app
> is doing

is it true work is being done to integrate with Amrita tempaltes?

> I'm not going to profess to solve the problems of someone who has none :-)

touche.  i meant they were _greatly_ reduced by eliminating all the string
manip from my old cgi's and offloading it onto Amrita.

-a


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