<div dir="ltr">Thanks for raising this issue, James!<br><br>Similar opinions were expressed by others when the Swift Evolution proposal SE-0019, "Swift Testing", was being discussed. <br><br>- Review of the proposal on the mailing list: <a href="https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20160111/006197.html">https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20160111/006197.html</a><br>- Comments on the GitHub pull request to add the proposal: <a href="https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/pull/51">https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/pull/51</a><br><br>I think there was a general consensus that as long as the package manager's testing support was generic enough, it would allow third-parties to build testing frameworks in any style, including RSpec's. The accepted proposal will initially only support XCTest, with consideration for third-party framework support to come later. At that later point, I'm sure RSpec-style frameworks for Swift will emerge from the larger open-source community.<br><br>In the meantime, swift-corelibs-xctest's goal remains the same: API parity with Objective-C XCTest. Adopting RSpec-style syntax is a non-goal for that project.<div><br></div><div>- Brian Gesiak</div><div><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 2:34 PM, James Campbell via swift-evolution <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I would love to propose we add more BDD styled testability like RSpec <a href="http://rspec.info/" target="_blank">http://rspec.info/</a><div><br></div><div>It makes reading tests for specific behaviour easier to read as it can be nested withoin contexts. Adding a first class mocking library would be great since it is very hard to do this with Swift's static typing.</div><div><br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">
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