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diff --git a/tutorial.mdwn b/tutorial.mdwn index 0e4f293..50ae97a 100644 --- a/tutorial.mdwn +++ b/tutorial.mdwn @@ -14,8 +14,9 @@ an agreement of when a customer is required to pay for a project. Acceptance testing differ from other integration testing by looking at the software only from the user's point of view, not the developers'. Because of this, Subplot produces two things: a standalone document -aimed at the user to describe the accepance tests, and a report from -executing the automated tests. +aimed at the user to describe the accepance tests, and a test suite +for developers to use to validate that the software meets those +acceptance tests. The document is meant to be a vehicle of communication between the various stakeholders in a project, for specifying in detail what the @@ -24,7 +25,8 @@ how they're verified, and makes it possible to do the verification automatically. Subplot generates the document, and a test program to execute the -tests. Running the generated test program produces the test report. +tests. Running the generated test program produces a test report which +can be used as evidence of passing the tests. # Architecture @@ -160,13 +162,14 @@ file might look like this: This means that for a step saying 'then standard output contains "foo"', the Python function `stdout_is_text` is called and given the -string `foo` as an argument. +string `foo` as an argument called `text`. The developers on the project, in collaboration with the testing team, -need to supply the bindings and the Python functions. Subplot produces -the code that extracts the interesting parts of scenario steps, and -calls your functions in the right order, plus any other scaffolding -needed. +need to supply both the bindings and the implementation functions in +whatever language the test suite is written in (Python in this +example). Subplot produces the code that extracts the interesting +parts of scenario steps, and calls your functions in the right order, +plus any other scaffolding needed. Installing Subplot |