Acceptance tests in (GitHub Flavored) markdown files.
The idea is so you are able to write simple documentations with accepatance tests, commit it together with your code and validate it in your CI pipeline. Markdown files are universal, easy to write and understand so they are perfect as a medium to have your acceptance tests.
We are using the GitHub Flavored markdown beacuse we need support for tables.
Why not Fitnesse?
This project is heavily inspired on fitnesse. We even use the same Slim Protocol to communicate with the SUT(System Under Test). The idea is not to compete with fitnesse, but simply be an alternative. If you want a more feature rich software, you probably should use Fitnesse.
We use the Slim Protocol to talk with the system under test. Here you can find a list of plugins for it in multiple languages. And Here you can find an incomplete implementation for Rust.
You will use one of these plugins to write the test fixtures in your project. Fixtures are glue code that serves as intermediary between Temoc and your software.
After this is done, you can write your accepatance tests markdown. Take a look at our calculator example Here. See the raw markdown files because there are hidden instructions. To run it, you can run cargo run -- -c Config.toml.example.
Temoc is written in rust, you can install the rust toolchain here. After that, you can compile everything using cargo build --release. This should create a compiled binary in ./target/release/temoc.
Once you have compiled it, you can run ./temoc --help to see the list of commands. Basically you will need to specify a command to start the slim server (your plugin should help you on how to do this), a port to be used in the connection (current we don't support STDIN,STOUT communication) and a list of markdown files to test. You can also write a configuration file to have a default list of parameters, you can look at an example here
Here is an example of the output of running Temoc for the Calculator Example
Testing file temoc/examples/calculator.md...OK
Testing file temoc/examples/calculator_2.md...SNOOZED