... I think there were a few of us.

first, big thanks to the organizers for putting on citcon, I'd say it
went pretty well. Also big thanks to all presenters for donating your
Friday evening and Saturday, it was much appreciated.

It's somewhat of a coincidence but over the past couple days I have
been putting the final touches on a python module called "testtools,"
getting it ready for open source.

And ... here it is : http://testtools.python-hosting.com/

The main focus is fixtures but it also has some helpers for creating
continuous integration scripts (see:
http://farmdev.com/projects/testtools/docs/0.7.1/module-testtools.bgtests.html).
This was all designed around subversion post-commit hooks and there
is even a handler for you to run a SimpleXMLRPCServer (my team needs
to trigger tests on a machine separate from our repository while
running CI).

In one of the 3 o'clock seminars, "Language of Testing", we ran out of
time but were about to define the term "Testing Tool." The rules were
simply not to use any words from the term itself. Here is my stab at
it:

"Something you can use to prove the functionality of software."

... but everyone knows that, right ?


thanks for reading,
Kumar