Taking Testing Seriously

Part IIIApplication and Customization

This book project actually started with a sort of gentle threat from Marius Francu: If James and Michael wouldn't turn the fruit of their long collaboration into a book on RST, maybe they wouldn't mind if a bunch of their friends did instead? Alternately charmed and shamed into action, your authors took it on.

Each chapter is written by someone we respect, and what we respect about them, among other things, is their disobedience. Yes, they apply RST, but in their own ways. These chapters show how people have used and remixed various bits of RST on their projects. Each of these authors is exemplary.

Our hope is to make RST more approachable by showing you that you can make it yours. We reject the “best practice” mentality, as we hope you also do. We hope you embrace thoughtful practice. That means you will experiment, reinterpret, and extend these ideas on your own behalf. Maybe, if you show us what you've done with it, we will add it to our canonical version of RST.