Next Steps and a New Bits

[Michael Labriola]

As of today, Flex Unit version 1.1.1 is now available for download. It
is a relatively minor release for the following items:
• Issue #34 - Assets are not located in net/digitalprimates/fluint
folder
• Issue #35 - Can't find TestResponder
• Issue #37 - Air Test Runner needs better error handling
• Added new target to ant build for building the airtestrunner as
an .airi file (target => "airtestrunner-intermediary")
• Added flex builder metadata files to the samples project

We have a version 1.2 planned for the very near future. It has some
requested changes to the sequences, bug fixes for sequence binding
operations and several new features contributed by the community.

However, the really big news is the reason it has taken us so long to
get version 1.1 out the door. The teams behind Fluint and FlexUnit
have worked together to produce a new version that combines the best
of both of these frameworks.

The new version provides all of the features currently available in
both of these frameworks. Further, it is fully backwards compatible
with both Fluint and FlexUnit tests, so your existing tests from
either of these sources can be run without change. In addition, the
new framework provides a cadre of long requested features, including:

• Metadata based Test and Suite identification (no more need to extend
testcase or testsuite)
• Hamcrest matchers courtesy of the hamcrest-as3 project.
More Info:
• Hamcrest AS3: http://github.com/drewbourne/hamcrest-as3/tree/master
• Hamcrest: http://code.google.com/p/hamcrest/
• Hamcrest Tutorial for Java: http://code.google.com/p/hamcrest/wiki/Tutorial
• Hamcrest Tutorial for PHP:
http://sebastian-bergmann.de/archives/735-Getting-Started-with-Hamcrest.html

•Theories, DataPoints and Assumptions
More Info:
• http://shareandenjoy.saff.net/tdd-specifications.pdf

• Ignorable tests
• Enhanced Sorting and Filtering

And, perhaps coolest of all, a complete extensibility layer for others
to write their own custom runners. This means that community projects
such as Fluint, FUnit, FlexMonkey or ASUnit could plug into the
framework to run mixed suites of tests from various frameworks.

There will be information posted in the next couple of days on where
to find the bits for a public alpha.

I am excited to see where the community can take a framework built for
extensibility and to watch this new platform evolve.

Cheers,
Mike

[DannyT]

Thanks Labriola, sounds very cool.

So is there now one project? Is it Flex Unit 1.1.1 or Fluint 1.1.1? Or is the 'platform' something completely new?

Dan

P.S - OT: Reminds me of an old croatian saying... ;)

2009/5/2 Michael Labriola <malab...@gmail.com>

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http://danny-t.co.uk

[Michael Labriola]

New platform will carry the FlexUnit name. It will likely be called
FlexUnit 4 as we will now have all of the functionality of JUnit4 in
addition to new features.

:)

On May 2, 7:27 am, DannyT <danmo...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Labriola, sounds very cool.
>
> So is there now one project? Is it Flex Unit 1.1.1 or Fluint 1.1.1? Or is
> the 'platform' something completely new?
>
> Dan
>
> P.S - OT: Reminds me of an old croatian saying... ;)
>

> 2009/5/2 Michael Labriola <malabri...@gmail.com>

> >http://sebastian-bergmann.de/archives/735-Getting-Started-with-Hamcre...

[Arnoud]

Whoohoo! cewl!

2 questions:
- is JUnit4 compatible output generated? Now i have to manually
translate the output for decent reports on the build server.
- are there plans for real ide integration? I heard rumors that flex
builder 4 will have FlexUnit integration. It would be awesome if we
could just interactively test a method from our ide instead of running
all tests in a runner project.

I know, maybe i'm asking too much ;-)

Really happy that i choose fluint as my test framework of choice,
cause it's awesome and these developments are great!

thanx Arnoud

[Michael Labriola]

1) Yep, or at least its pretty close now but I would be happy to have
you verify this once the bits are online
2) All I can say is :)

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[Jesse Warden]

Regarding #1 and #2, do you have a blog entry talking about this?  It'd be a lot easier to get the word out.

[Michael Labriola]

Jesse,

Just waiting to get the bits out on the wire where people can play
with them. As soon as I do, then I will blog.

Just giving you guys the first heads up,
Mike

On May 2, 10:22 am, Jesse Warden <jesse.war...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Regarding #1 and #2, do you have a blog entry talking about this?  It'd be a
> lot easier to get the word out.
>

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[Jesse Warden]

Hehe, that's not how marketing hype works bro.  You gotta tease people.  Please post a link to yer blog enty (here/email/twitter/whatever) when you do, thanks bunches!

[Michael Labriola]

Overview of features and a link to some alpha bits:

http://blogs.digitalprimates.net/codeSlinger/index.cfm/2009/5/3/FlexUnit-4-in-360-seconds

Hopefully tomorrow the adobe open source site will be updated with new
information,
Mike

On May 2, 10:26 am, Jesse Warden <jesse.war...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hehe, that's not how marketing hype works bro.  You gotta tease people.
>  Please post a link to yer blog enty (here/email/twitter/whatever) when you
> do, thanks bunches!
>

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