About

FIT4Data is a testing framework for data management applications built on the Java implementation of FIT. It allows developers to write FIT-like tests using the programming language of their choice. This is essential in the ETL domain where the key technical skills are UNIX scripting and the ETL language used on the project and most developers do not know Java (or any other OO language) so they cannot be expected to write fixtures in the usual fashion.

For example, if you are an Ab Initio developer, you can use FIT4Data to specify input data sets and tests to run against the system under test using some slightly modified FIT fixtures and connectors provided as part of this project using FIT4Data's command line interface.

You test results will be written in an easy to read HTML format like this...

Furthermore, FIT4Data provides direct support for common ETL tasks like integrating with a UNIX shell environment and maintaining reusable data sets. The focus of the project is to further expand this capability to make it quicker and easier to write and run tests.

Licences, Libraries and Acknowledgements

FIT4Data is released under the GNU General Public License v3 and it uses other open source products as follows

• FIT v1.1 (http://fit.c2.com)
• H2 Database (http://www.h2database.com/html/main.html)

This product includes software developed by the Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/)...

• xerces (http://xerces.apache.org/xerces-j)
• xalan (http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/)