Chapter 38. Testing in the Fast Lane: Automating Acceptance Testing in an Extreme Programming Environment

Tip House and Lisa Crispin

Copyright © 2003, Tip House, Chief Systems Analyst, OCLC, and Lisa Crispin. All rights reserved.

This chapter is about automating functional and acceptance testing in an Extreme Programming (XP) environment. We look at the central position of test-first programming and unit test automation with respect to other XP practices, examine what could be gained through a similar approach for functional and acceptance test automation, and discuss differences between unit and functional tests that affect test-first programming. We describe our framework for functional test automation and illustrate the method using a simple Web application and the WebART test tool.