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I plan to add an agnostic generator for code-coverage that can be easily extended to allow generators for a given testing toolkit. I will adapt it as necessary to facilitate unforeseen/esoteric features as new testers get added, but the idea is to make a utility API that generalizes the process of defining contexts and templates for their associated testing code for the generator to use. I plan to support TDD and BDD based systems, and isomorphic module designs.

Once a generator is in place a lot of tests can be fully automated, however some will require minimal input from the developer. That will be the final task, to allow the API to facilitate developer-facing interaction in the build environment, but using a data-driven approach so specialized plugin code does not have to be written by plugins author.

This design will hopefully make the resultant API adaptable for other builder environments such as Google's Polymer Designer (which has recently been rewritten from scratch by the Polymer-dev team, albeit currently unusable).




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