bittersweetryan/ColdFusion-Koans — Issue #17: Distractions from learning
Author: fusehill
Created: 2012-01-09 22:27:09+00:00
State: open

I spent the weekend playing with Python Koans. What I especially love about the Python Koans is that when you run the script, you are presented with a single failing test. You open the file, navigate to the test that is failing, make your changes, and on to the next test you go.

This is what I don't like about ColdFusion Koans currently. When you access the MXUnit tests page, you see a huge page listing all the failed tests. This may have been okay initially with just a few test, but the page is getting much longer as we add more tests. I find this screen of every test that failed to be very distracting and I think it probably distracts the user from learning ColdFusion.

In addition, the tests are not ordered. I know they are suppose to be ... and maybe in Railo or OpenBD they are, but I'm running ColdFusion 9 Developer Edition and the test are not in order whatsoever. I have not changed the mxunit folder or anything. This is extremely distracting when using ColdFusion Koans.

I think both of these issues can be addressed and improved upon and I'm willing to help do it.

But first, your thoughts?