Introduction

Fixture Gallery is a cookbook for FIT/FitNesse tests. It provides developers with a quick overview of the most important fixture types and concepts for agile acceptance testing using the FIT framework. For each fixture type, this document explains the table format and fixture class structure and provides advice when to use and when not to use it. Each example is accompanied by the source code for Java, .NET, Python, and Smalltalk FIT implementations, in a form that can be easily copied and used as a template for similar fixtures.

This document is released in three forms: a print-ready PDF, an executable FitNesse wiki and a live web site. You can get the latest FitNesse and PDF versions of this document, along with the source code, from http://gojko.net/fitnesse. The live version is online at http://www.fitnesse.info/fixturegallery.

This document will be most useful to people who are already using FIT and FitNesse to some extent and know the basics, although experienced FIT/FitNesse users might also find a few new tricks here. This is not a good guide to help you get started with FIT or FitNesse. See http://www.fitnesse.info/resources for a list of resources that will help you take that first step.

Version 2.1 brings examples for the Smalltalk implementation of FIT. Many thanks to Randy Coulman for providing these examples.

My intention with the Fixture Gallery is to start an open documentation project where other people can contribute their notes and ideas about how best to use FIT/FitNesse fixtures. The source code for the document and all examples is hosted on SourceForge (see http://sourceforge.net/projects/fixturegallery/). Please help to make this document better either by directly changing it on SourceForge or by modifying the live wiki version on http://www.fitnesse.info/fixturegallery.

To leave comments or feedback, please use the form on http://gojko.net/fitnesse/fixturegallery.

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