DESCRIPTION

Systir stands for "SYStem Testing In Ruby". It’s a framework for automating system-level tests using domain-specific language, and contains some tools and hints on how to construct and utilize your own domain language.

The breakdown of using Systir for test automation is:

1. Tester defines test steps using project- and technology-specific language.
   • Tests are written in files like authentication.test and order_placement.test
2. The Toolsmith implements a driver to support the syntax of that language
   • In a project-specific module, the Toolsmith writes an extension of the Systir::LanguageDriver class to support the macros used in *.test
3. The Tester’s "scripts" are gathered up by Systir, executed, and a report is generated.
   • Toolsmith writes a short script which uses Systest::Launcher to compose *.test files into a suite for execution.

TECHNICAL NOTE

Under the hood, Systir is an extension of Test::Unit. The output from executing the test suite should therefor be familiar to a Ruby coder. Additionally, it might be educational to the Toolsmith to understand that LanguageDriver is a derivative of Test::Unit::TestCase, and that all *.test files become test methods inside the TestCase which is then composed as a Test::Unit::TestSuite

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