What does RSpec stand for?

[Panayotis Matsinopoulos]

Dear All,

It may have been answered in the past...but I cannot find it.

Does RSpec stand for "Requirements Specification"?

Thanks in advance

Panos M.

[Myron Marston]

I'm not sure (I wasn't around when RSpec was first named) but I've always thought the "R" stood for "Ruby", similar to the J in JUnit standing for Java, N in NUnit standing for .NET, etc.

Myron

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[Jon Rowe]

Stephen Baker named it in early 2005 when looking for a way to avoid the word “test”, I think “Ruby Specify” is probably the closest thing it stands for.

Jon Rowe

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[Peter Boling]

"spec[s]" as I understand it is coder shorthand for "specification[s]".  Based on this I've always thought of RSpec as shorthand for "Ruby Specification" as in "Specification for code written in Ruby"

Peter

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