Why was Jenkins ATH project ported over to Java from Ruby?

[Adi]

Hello all,

Does anyone know the reason why Jenkins Ruby Acceptance tests (https://github.com/jenkinsci/selenium-tests) were ported over to Java (https://github.com/jenkinsci/acceptance-test-harness) a couple of years ago?

Was it because Ruby tests were unstable?

Or was it because there were more developers with Java knowledge/background? Or some other reason?

I would like to know these answers for research purposes. 

Best regards,

Adi

[Oliver Gondža]

Mostly because we are java folks[2] and cucumber was not expressive
enough[1].

Looking back, it was a time well spend (on porting it) as it enabled us
to do a lot more interesting things in a lot less time with lot more
people contributing to ATH. (I am not saying it would not be possible
with Ruby (I am less sure about cucumber, though) but it just works
better for us).

[1] https://groups.google.com/d/topic/jenkinsci-dev/8gzBbSS1Uh4/discussion
[2]
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/jenkinsci-dev/AM7e5qJRTjo/discussion

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oliver

[Aditya Nisal]

Thank you, this was indeed helpful! 

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