--- title: "February at Agile Israel: The FIT Testing Framework" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2006/2/6/february-at-agile-israel-the-fit-testing-framework.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2006/2/6/february-at-agile-israel-the-fit-testing-framework.html" published: "2006-02-06T07:56:00" updated: "2006-02-06T07:56:00" tags: ["Agile Israel News", "Agile Related", "Team Agile News"] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "[we currently have 240 members registered with the group(!). If you want to join (it's free!) just go to www.Agileisrael.com and press the register link] The next Agile Israel meeting will take place on the 27th of this…" usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)." license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" --- # February at Agile Israel: The FIT Testing Framework By Roy Osherove February 6, 2006 In [Agile Israel News](https://osherove.com/blog/category/agile-israel-news), [Agile Related](https://osherove.com/blog/category/agile-related), [Team Agile News](https://osherove.com/blog/category/team-agile-news) **Historical article** · Originally published February 6, 2006; technical details may be outdated. _\[we currently have 240 members registered with the group(!). If you want to join (it's free!) just go to_ [_www.Agileisrael.com_](http://www.agileisrael.com/) _and press the register link\]_ The next Agile Israel meeting will take place on the 27th of this month (Monday) and will be about FIT testing. For more information and arrival instruction, [see the event page](http://www.agileisrael.com/Default.aspx?tabid=121). Time and date: February 27th, 2006 **Gathering and smalltalk: 17:30** We start **promptly** at 18:00 Speaker: Amir Kolsky The [Framework for Interactive Testing (FIT)](http://fit.c2.com/) is a mechanism to specify tests using a higher level language (namely HTML). By using human readable, writable and understandable language we are able to merge specifications and testing into a unified entity called the Executable Specification. This is also commonly referred to (but not limited to) Acceptance, User or Story Tests.   Story Test Driven Development is an an alternative to the traditional TDD approach (pun is intended). In this lecture we will look at: \- What is a unit test and how they are executed \- What is FIT and how FIT tests are executed \- How to marry unit tests and FIT \- The types of FIT tables   The second part will be a FIT demonstration - I.e. going from requirement to test to working code. **Amir Kolsky** has been in the software industry for longer than he cares to remember. He spent many years in IBM research working on everything from translation systems to operating systems. After leaving IBM he took the chief architect and CTO in several large and small companies, founded a company (MobileSpear) and eventually decided that what he likes to do best is rekindle peoples love of programming. He has been doing Agile since 2000 and has co-founded XPand Software with the agile tenets as its foundations. ## More in Agile Israel News [All posts in Agile Israel News](https://osherove.com/blog/category/agile-israel-news) - Mar 27, 2006 ### [Special Agile Israel Meeting Today!](https://osherove.com/blog/2006/3/27/special-agile-israel-meeting-today.html) - Mar 10, 2006 ### [March at Agile Israel - Great presentations & The group's first birthday](https://osherove.com/blog/2006/3/10/march-at-agile-israel-great-presentations-amp-the-groups-fir.html) - Feb 1, 2006 ### [\[Audio Interview\] Johanna Rothman - Secrets of great management](https://osherove.com/blog/2006/2/1/audio-interview-johanna-rothman-secrets-of-great-management.html) - Feb 1, 2006 ### [\[Audio Interview\] Kent Beck - An Agile conversation (First Iteration)](https://osherove.com/blog/2006/2/1/audio-interview-kent-beck-an-agile-conversation-first-iterat.html) --- ## 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. - [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes). ### Social - X: https://x.com/royosherove - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/ ### Contact - Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7 ### License Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). 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