Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fitnesse

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This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was no consensus to delete (three votes either way ignoring the multiple sockpuppet votes) -- Francs2000 | Talk 11:31, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Fitnesse

Dead link, nn advertising. humblefool® 15:57, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

  • Delete though the link is now working, it is still nn advertising. Difficult to Google for (they're not the only ones to think of this 'word'), but their Alexa rank is 395,000. -Splash 17:54, 25 July 2005 (UTC)Keep the rewrite, but give it an expansion tag. -Splash 17:28, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete ad; but not necessarily nn. It's technically notable for automating acceptance tests in a format accessible to non-programmers (Ward Cunningham's FIT framework), and then organizing those tests in a Wiki format (Fitnesse), and it's generating interest by being featured in the "Apprentice" series of articles in Software Development. I'd suggest adding a reference as an external link to the extreme programming page, similar to JUnit and NUnit links elsewhere. (new user) Leifbennett 21:25, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep It's open source software, so it's tough to call it an ad. Fitnesse is a word in the agile development community. If you don't want it on the wikipedia, that's your choice, but it's something that the software community needs to know about.
  • Above vote by 67.185.81.16
  • This is why we have VfD: I'd vote to keep if someone who knows this can rewrite it so that the article has more than mild-advertising in it. -Splash 01:48, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep This is a brilliant framework and has really started changing the way developers, testers, and customers think about project development and requirement gathering. A terrific addition to the Agile community.
  • Keep This is a very important tool for agil software development. Thus it should not be deleted!
  • Keep FitNesse is one of the best frameworks for customer tests and is wildly admired within the agile developement community.
  • Keep FitNesse is a really interesting concept for testing software and I can not see how this article is an ad. If you think this is an ad, why keep articles about Linux or even Microsoft (with a trademarked logo and a "mission statement", which sounds like sth. from Scientology BTW)?

*Expand, merge or delete as it doesn't say much now and all these anonymous votes for keep suggest a bit of self promotion is going on... however I now vote keep following recent edits. Garglebutt 13:59, July 26, 2005 (UTC)

  • Keep I use FitNesse (built on Ward Cunningham's Fit testing library) to help test an application. I think the entry should be kept (as should entries on Java, Perl, JUnit, etc.).
  • Above vote by QuasiJoe 16:44, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep. I wrote very basic description of what it is (more and better info is welcomed). It should be renamed to FitNesse. Pavel Vozenilek 17:21, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
    • That's much better! I'll change my vote. -Splash 17:28, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep. Very handy tool. Important to agile development


  • Keep. FitNesse.org is a legitimate software testing tool Wiki site. It however has been spammed recently and needs cleaning up - Barry Gaunt (Moderator at http://www.javaranch.com)
  • Delete sockpuppet-bait Saswann 18:09, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep. The tool is free so the page cannot be considered an advertisement. The is a very popular open source project that has a wide distribution and an active user community (fitnesse@yahoogroups.com). Robert C. Martin (Contributor to FitNesse)


  • Delete. Just because the framework is good and open-source does not mean it should be added to Wikipedia. The article and the votes on this page clearly shows this is promotion for this software. --Sleepyhead81 19:05, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
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