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title: "[Free eBook]FIT for Developing Software: Framework for Integrated Tests"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/4/8/free-ebookfit-for-developing-software-framework-for-integrat.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/4/8/free-ebookfit-for-developing-software-framework-for-integrat.html"
published: "2005-04-08T15:00:00"
updated: "2005-04-08T15:00:00"
tags: [".Net Quotations", "Agile Related", "Free book chapters"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "The FIT for Developing Software: Framework for Integrated Tests (2.4 MB) free eBook by Rick Mugridge and Ward Cunningham is available for download. \"This book is about using Fit tables for two major, interconnected…"
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---

# \[Free eBook\]FIT for Developing Software: Framework for Integrated Tests

By Roy Osherove April 8, 2005 In [.Net Quotations](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-quotations), [Agile Related](https://osherove.com/blog/category/agile-related), [Free book chapters](https://osherove.com/blog/category/free-book-chapters)

**Historical article** · Originally published April 8, 2005; technical details may be outdated.

The [FIT for Developing Software: Framework for Integrated Tests](http://c2.com/FitBook8Dec2004.pdf) (2.4 MB) **free** eBook by Rick Mugridge and Ward Cunningham is available for download.

"This book is about using Fit tables for two major, interconnected tasks:

- Helping to think about and communicate what is needed in a software application
    through concrete examples.
- Automatically testing that the application is doing what is expected, from a
    business perspective, and that the application continues to do so as it grows
    in functionality.

These two tasks are essential to the value and quality of a software application.
But they are often carried out poorly, leading to breakdowns in each step along the
way from business need to a running application."

\[via [Clarke Ching's blog](http://www.clarkeching.com/2005/04/gosh_i_love_fre.html)\]

(via [Darrell](http://www.codebetter.com/blogs/darrell.norton/archive/2005/04/07/61501.aspx))

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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
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