Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Unit test framework

Unit test framework

Make this a redirect to unit test (rather than deleting).

Rationale: Essay/howto-style article, unreferenced, thematic duplicate of unit test (anything encyclopedic that could be added to this article should rather be added to unit test). Lea (talk) 11:34, 4 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. Although the article as it stands is poor, this seems a reasonable topic for an article. Unit test frameworks are really as much about regression testing as unit testing, so redirecting to unit test would probably not be appropriate. Some of the information on this topic is already here in articles such xUnit and Test-driven development. I would like to see a better article here rather than this just changed to a redirect.--Michig (talk) 12:40, 4 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment: You're probably right that there could be something encyclopedic about unit test frameworks (general history, perhaps different approaches, etc.), but I can't see enough material off the top of my head to give it a try. The article would need a complete re-write in any case, so until someone's willing to do that, we may as well put a redirect. (If it gets redirected, we should probably place a note on Talk:unit testing that something could be written there.) -- Lea (talk) 20:54, 4 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. The nominator's problems with the current text seem spot-on. We do not need articles with elaborate quotations in source code.
Moreover, I would question whether we need quite so much granularity about the minutiae of software development or the problems of supervising software developers. That sort of thing seems to attract spam; be poorly written; full of vaguely abstract talk of "processes" and "systems". My general impression is that it constitutes a sort of tech-management-cruft. Notability is usually not an issue, since there probably is an extensive literature for any such subject you might name; readability, general interest, and sorting out legitimate topics from stealth spam are. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 15:52, 4 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- (Semi-off-topic comment: Unit testing comes from agile development, which tends to be rather non-crufty. Agree with your comment that I've seen a lot of tech-management-cruft, but I'm not competent enough on big-process management to propose any (new) notability guidelines there, or even have an idea where to draw the line.) -- Lea (talk) 20:54, 4 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Essay/howto, adds nothing encyclopedic to our existing article on unit tests. I was hoping for an article-length expansion of unit test#Unit testing frameworks and would support the existence of such an article, but the present article doesn't help lead to that outcome. —David Eppstein (talk) 03:40, 5 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]