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While in one sense I agree (testrogen is an awful name), would you want to use a test framework named "Estrogen - The girly testing framework"? Maybe it wouldn
by zheng 15y ago
While in one sense I agree (testrogen is an awful name), would you want to use a test framework named "Estrogen - The girly testing framework"? Maybe it wouldn't matter to you (I don't think I'd care really), but imagine being one of the only male developers in a group of overly feminist "chickgrammers" (excuse the play on words) who all claimed that "Estrogen" made them feel super-girly, and let you know at every chance they got just how girly it made them feel.
Even without the hypothetical situation, branding a framework as the "framework for [gender]" is going to implicitly exclude anyone who isn't of that gender. Not to mention those for whom gender isn't quite as binary.
- kaolinite 15y agoSure, I agree with the "framework for [gender]" argument. I don't think that "the manly testing interface for Python" is too bad, but I can agree that it may put some people off - so dropping that is a good idea. Changing the name however is a bit dramatic, in my opinion.