XSpec is a Behavior Driven Development (BDD) framework for XSLT and XQuery. It is based on the Spec framework of RSpec, which is a BDD framework for Ruby.

XSpec consists of a syntax for describing the behaviour of your XSLT or XQuery code, and some code that enables you to test your code against those descriptions.

An external project, jxsl, provides a Maven archetype for XSpec (Ant is expected soon). The goal is to provide everything needed to integrate with Continuous Integration tools for Java (like Hudson, Cruise Control, etc.) See Benoit's presentation at Balisage 2011 in Montreal for more info.