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hitchstory
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hitchdev / hitchstory

hitchstory

Type-safe YAML integration tests. Tests that write your docs. Tests that rewrite themselves.

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24Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
104GitHub stars
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Type-safe YAML integration tests. Tests that write your docs. Tests that rewrite themselves.

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Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 10:02:05 AM UTC.

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Observed mentions: 2018-12-13 22:52:28 UTC to 2024-10-18 03:14:54 UTC.

0510152018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 14 mentions; 0 submissions, 14 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 1 submissions, 6 comments2024

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20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
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20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC14014
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC716

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This is kind of what I have been doing with this testing framework: https://github.com/hitchdev/hitchstory It's designed so that you can write tests that are the basis of the "how to" documentation - with a small script and some jinja2 you can generate readable documentation in the form of markdown from the test: Original test (behavioral example) : https://github.com/crdoconnor/strictyaml/blob/master/hitch/s... Example docs generated from that test : https://hitchdev.com/strictyaml/using/alpha/scalar/email-and... It's also designed so that the testing framework can be programmed to rewrite the test automatically for simple code changes (e.g. changing the wording of that exception). This makes building tests much quicker and much, much less tedious and perfectly in sync docs almost becomes a side effect. Essentially "how to" documentation
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and example driven behavioral tests are the same thing for all projects. It's just that most people don't realize and don't treat them as such.
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