I don't hear too much discussion around techniques for testing in Julia so 
I wanted to get other community members' take on how they test their code. 
As I see it, there are two testing packages available: the built-in 
functional and unit tests 
(http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/stdlib/test/) and the Fact Check 
package (https://github.com/zachallaun/FactCheck.jl). Most projects I see 
either don't have tests or use the built-in libraries.

The Javascript and Ruby communities have recently become very bullish on 
testing, particularly on a behavior-driven development (BDD) style where 
tests are written first to describe the requirements of the code and run 
continuously as the code gets developed. As an example, the very popular 
RSpec, Mocha, and Jasmine testing frameworks take this approach and seem to 
have been well adopted and supported by their respective communities.

My question is, would there be much value with a similar style of testing 
in Julia? 

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