[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Chell: A quiet test runner (low-output alternative to test-framework)

[John Millikin]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 07:52, Greg Weber <greg at gregweber.info> wrote:
> It silences HUnit's output, but will tell you what happens when there is a
> failure- which I think is what you want. There are a few available output
> formatters if you don't like the default output, or you can write your own
> output formatter.

I'm a bit confused. From what I can tell, HUnit does not output
*anything* just from running a test -- the result has to be printed
manually. What are you silencing?

> BDD is really a red herring. Instead of using function names to name tests
> you can use strings, which are inherently more descriptive. In chell you
> already have `assertions "numbers"`, in hspec it would be `it "numbers"`.
> The preferred style it to remove `test test_Numbers and the test_Numbers
> definition` which are redundant in this case, and instead place that inline
> where you define the suite, although that is optional.
> So I really can't tell any difference betwee "BDD"  and "pass/fail
> assertions". You still just use assertions in hspec.