Gitnesse

Gitnesse is an acceptance testing tool.

It enables a project to store Cucumber feature stories in a git-based wiki, test them against your code, and then update the wiki with the latest test results.

The advantage is, that the features are on a wiki, so non-programmers can see them, and edit using the wiki. Hence an awesome bi-directional testing flow between developers and non-developers on a team.

Conceptually influenced by Fitnesse http://fitnesse.org/ thank you Uncle Bob!

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'gitnesse'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install gitnesse

Create a gitnesse.rb file somewhere in your project, and add something like the following to it:

Gitnesse.configure do |config|
  config.repository_url = "[email protected]:hybridgroup/gitnesse-demo.wiki"
  config.annotate_results = true
  config.info = "Bob Martin's development laptop"
end

Git Config

Gitnesse depends on two values being present in your gitconfig: user.name and user.email. These will be used when annotating test results, and to identify commits you make to the feature wiki. If Gitnesse complains that you don't have these set, you can fix this by entering the following lines in your terminal:

$ git config --add --global user.name <your_name>
$ git config --add --global user.email <your_email>

rake tasks

$ rake gitnesse:pull
$ rake gitnesse:push
$ rake gitnesse:run
$ rake gitnesse:info
$ rake gitnesse:push_results

Usage In Rails 3

For Rails 3 the rake tasks should automatically just appear, as long as you have added the gitnesse gem to your Gemfile.

There is an example application using Rails 3 located here: https://github.com/hybridgroup/gitnesse-example-rails

Usage In Sinatra

To use gitnesse in a Sinatra application, simple add this line of code to your Rakefile:

require "gitnesse/tasks"

There is an example application using Sinatra located here: https://github.com/hybridgroup/gitnesse-example-sinatra

Other Usage

Want to use plain old Gitnesse? There is an executable, if you're allergic to rake tasks:

$ gitnesse

TODO

- pluggable feature runners, so can be used with Spinach, Cucumber-JS, or ?
- standalone server so end users to run tests and see live results, just like Fitnesse

Contributing

  1. Fork it
  2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
  3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
  4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
  5. Create new Pull Request