Cram is a test framework for command line programs, originally written for mercurial’s test suite. I like the approach – it just reads a shell transcript and runs the commands it finds. If the output doesn’t match, it shows you a diff. It’s kind of like doctest. It looks refreshingly simple to get started with, [...]

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This post is here to prevent broken links, since I’ve noticed people coming here from a link to my old Stakeout page. Stakeout was a program that runs something when files change, by watching for file changes at the system level using kqueue. It was intended to support running automated tests. The 2nd version even [...]

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