Red/green bar for CHUI
Posted by danielmeyer on August 1, 2008
One of the languages we use didn’t have a graphical xUnit runner available, and while Aaron ended up creating us a nice runner (thanks again, Aaron!), before that was quite ready (or did it take some time before I saw the good in a GUI runner — could it be I was stuck on CHUI?!) I was experimenting to see if we could bring the beloved Red/Green bar to CHUI. Here’s the proof-of-concept that led Ben (Old Ben, I mean :) to say, “This is not where we should be spending our time.” :
Was Ben right? He sure was! :)
Jonathan Branam said
I love it!
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