renaming jqUnit

Colin Clark colin.clark at utoronto.ca
Mon Feb 2 21:13:48 UTC 2009


Hey Justin,

A bit of quick background information:

QUnit is the jQuery unit testing framework, and it has recently been  
improved. We've been running off a custom fork of it which we dubbed  
jqUnit. Justin is migrating us back to the standard version.

We also have some asserts that provide compatibility with the xUnit- 
style asserts. We like them, so the question is what to call them.

On 2-Feb-09, at 3:06 PM, Justin wrote:
> I'm nearing the completion of switching from jqUnit to qUnit.
>
> Since I need the name change in order to complete the conversion,  
> please post your suggestions by the end of the day.

A bunch of us talked this over on the IRC channel. Here's a summary of  
the conversation:

colinclark:I think everyone here tends to prefer the xUnit-style  
asserts.
colinclark:Rather than ok() and the like.

Bosmon:Yes, they are unfortunate
Bosmon:Well, my suggestion is that we just continue to call it jqUnit

anastasiac:hm... it's a jUnit - qUnit adapter, right?
anastasiac:so "jqUnit" seems at least mildly fitting

michelled:I suppose xqUnit is slightly better but I don't think it's  
enough better to change
michelled:I'm happy with jqUnit

Justin_o:Bosmon, colinclark, michelled, anastasiac: sounds like we are  
going to keep jqUnit

So, we'll stick with "jqUnit." Justin, thanks for fixing this issue,  
it's nice to get rid of our little fork.

Colin

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Colin Clark
Technical Lead, Fluid Project
Adaptive Technology Resource Centre, University of Toronto
http://fluidproject.org