Software Carpentry

Someone has convinced the US government to fund the development of a set of four easy-to-use open source tools. One of the tools is "a unit and regression testing harness with the functionality of XUnit, TclExpect, and DejaGnu." The early design portion of the project is being run as a competition. I'm one of the judges.

Perhaps inevitably, this has led to furor on Slashdot. See People are seeing it as divisive (as well as an insidious plot to promote Python, because Python is to be used where feasible.)

Here's my response to all that:

Note that the contest rules absolutely permit submissions that build on top of the JUnit/XUnit design. Gratuitous reinvention is not the idea.

-- BrianMarick

What happened to this? Any news?

The award was supposed to have been made in 2000.


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