
NET, the experiments will just be in ruby. However you can start using the framework to validate business assertions today even if the implementation of your project is in. NET community adopting it (as they do with so many other open source frameworks) in the near future. This implementation is currently in ruby, but I can see the. Assaf Arkin over at created a prototype framework for creating EDD experiments. EDD is meant to give customer reps and developers a common set of tools to measure the importance of usage of features before taking the time to fully build them.

It’s a common occurrence that customer representatives in a software project sometimes state with absolute certainty the importance of a feature when they really have no facts to back those statements up. It was followed up by the product WINCheckit. It has an easy to use menu interface but can also run tests non-interactively.

It can perform tests on RAM, hard disks, video cards, floppy disks, motherboard resources, and I/O devices.

This is a novel concept, and he discusses it briefly in this interview over at InfoQ. CheckIt, from TouchStone Software Corporation, is a diagnostic tool for generic PC/XT/AT compatible computers. Much like we write tests to assert that the code is really working the way it should, Nathaniel Talbott thinks we should be able to write experiments to provide us with facts that assert the usage of a feature of software is really valid.
