[swift-corelibs-dev] [xctest] Terminology: What to call "swift-corelibs-xctest" and "Apple XCTest"

Daniel Dunbar daniel_dunbar at apple.com
Thu Dec 24 11:26:19 CST 2015


I believe we have been saying "Corelibs XCTest", but agree it would be nice to have a standard labelling.

 - Daniel

> On Dec 22, 2015, at 11:57 PM, Brian Gesiak via swift-corelibs-dev <swift-corelibs-dev at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I've been referring to the project hosted at
> https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-xctest as
> "swift-corelibs-xctest", and the project shipped alongside Xcode 7.2
> as "Apple XCTest".
> 
> What are the canonical names for these projects? I'd like to agree on
> common terminology to avoid confusion in the future.
> 
> Over the past few weeks I've seen several names for
> https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-xctest:
> 
> - Open source XCTest
> - Swift XCTest
> - Linux XCTest
> - swift-corelibs-xctest
> 
> And several names for the XCTest framework shipped alongside Xcode:
> 
> - Darwin XCTest
> - Apple XCTest
> 
> How do you refer to these projects? What do you think is the simplest
> way to refer to them, in a way that clearly differentiates them?
> 
> Personally, I prefer calling them "swift-corelibs-xctest" and "Apple
> XCTest", although I do think that "swift-corelibs-xctest" is a
> mouthful.
> 
> - Brian Gesiak
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