Test XSLT with XSpec

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River Valley TV

Tennison, Jeni

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Title

Test XSLT with XSpec

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XML Prague 2009

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Number of Parts

Author

Tennison, Jeni

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CC Attribution - NoDerivatives 2.0 UK: England & Wales:
You are free to use, copy, distribute and transmit the work or content in unchanged form for any legal purpose as long as the work is attributed to the author in the manner specified by the author or licensor.

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10.5446/31149 (DOI)

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River Valley TV

Release Date

2012

Language

English

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2009

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Prague, Czech Republic

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Computer Science

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Conference/Talk

Abstract

Test-driven development is one of the corner stones of Agile development, providing quick feedback about mistakes in code and freeing developers to refactor safe in the knowledge that any errors they introduce will be caught by the tests. There have been several test harnesses developed for XSLT, of which XSpec is one of the latest. XSpec draws inspiration from the behaviour-driven development framework for Ruby, called RSpec, and focuses on helping developers express the desired behaviour of their XSLT code. This talk will discuss the XSpec language, its implementation in XSLT 2.0, and experience with using XSpec on complex, large-scale projects.