Test-Driven Development Using AppleScript

Andy — Mon, 26 May 2008 04:41:12 +0000

MacTech Magazine recently published my two-part article titled “Test-Driven Development Using AppleScript”. In the April 2008 issue, part 1 gave an overview of test-driven development techniques using the AppleScript language, then gave a short example of those techniques using the ASUnit testing framework. In the May 2008 issue, the ASUnit framework was used to develop a number guessing game using test-driven development techniques.

Back issues are available from MacTech magazine (issues 24.04 and 24.05). The following are the web links contained within the articles:

Part 1 (April 2008):

Kent Beck’s work on testing frameworks for SmallTalk
Junit testing framework for Java
Directory of testing frameworks for many languages
ASUnit AppleScript testing framework home page

Part 2 (May 2008):

Example ASUnit tests for the SafeTerminal application
Matt Neuberg’s book “AppleScript: The Definitive Guide“
Article by Charles Ross on object-oriented programming techniques in AppleScript
Wikipedia page on test-driven development

Finally, I am linking a file of the script listings from the two articles (Stuffit Expander required to expand the scripts).

ASUnit article example scripts

Andy Sylvester's Web » AppleScript

Test-Driven Development Using AppleScript