In order to support automation and contionuous integration efforts, FitNesse allows test execution from outside the wiki.

There are several ways of doing this:

|''Method''                                                                   |''Benefits''                                                                                        |
|[[Test execution on the command line][ControllingFitNesseFromTheCommandLine]]|[[Ant/Maven support][ControllingFitNesseFromTheCommandLine#antIntegration]]                         |
|[[Test execution through JUnit][RunningFromJunit]]                           |IDE integration, [[Maven support][RunningFromMaven]], fixture debugging, JUnit XML result generation|
|[[!-FitNesse-! Automation with REST commands][RestfulServices]]              |Can be used with any program that can send HTTP requests                                            |