GreenPepper Steps Into Fitnesse’s Space
acceptence testing, software development
Apparently GreenPepper’s Accept launched at Agile 2006 as an acceptance testing framework built into a wiki. The idea is much like Fit/Fitnesse, with at least a few differences given that it’s based upon running in Confluence, and it has an open source version and a pay version. You can get a quick look at it in their demo sandbox.
Right now they promise that:
After using FIT for a while, we began to have ideas on how to extend its vision and reach. We looked at the code and we felt that doing a cleanroom implementation would be better.
I’m not sure what those ideas are right now, but it probably doesn’t hurt to have some more options in the acceptance testing tools space.
Ed Gibbs @ August 21, 2006
Hi Ed,
I took a look at GreenPepper while I was there. It seemed like an Ok product, but I guess I would have rather seen their effort put into Fitnesse itself, since they have to solve a lot of the same problems Fitnesse has (namely writing TestRunners in a wide variety of languages).
I believe they only had one or two languages supported when I saw it, but they said they were working rapidly to get that number up.
Right now the whole thing doesn’t look that compelling, we’ll just have to see. I believe I heard a podcast yesterday and they have a Java version, almost a Ruby version, and they expect to work on a .NET version next.