Introducing SugarTest

[Choan Gálvez]

Hi all.

After the recent conversations about a new syntax for jShoulda I
decided to create a new project and implement it.

Today it reach the "usable" status, so let me introduce SugarTest [1].

It features the new syntax I was proposing for jShoulda, still runs on
both JsUnitTest and Prototype-UnitTest and is of course published on
github [2].

Please see the tutorial [3] on SugarTest for more info. There's a
google group too [4] for discussing the library.

Finally, let me remark benefits achieved by the new project:

* Simpler chainable syntax — better in my opinion, than the jShoulda
arguments based syntax
* Only one object (`SugarTest`) is put on the global space. There's no
more dependency on the `window` object to export aliases
* Better aliasing by using "templates" for naming the resulting test
units
* Units and set up/tear down routines get now a "data" object, you can
write to it instead of polluting `this`

Major changes from jShoulda:

* Both describe/it and context/should pairs are available by default
* Every unit uses the same runner by default (you can use
`SugarTest.unifyRunners(false)` to create a differente test runner for
each sugar test).
* Gets you fat

As for jShoulda: I won't work on new features, but the project will
still be available for anyone to fork ;)

Thanks for your attention.

[1]: http://sugartest.scriptia.net
[2]: http://github.com/choan/sugar_test/tree/master
[3]: http://sugartest.scriptia.net/tutorial.html
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[Dr Nic Williams]

New tmbundle to go with it? :)

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[Choan Gálvez]

On Mar 8, 2009, at 22:54 , Dr Nic Williams wrote:

> New tmbundle to go with it? :)

Sure ;)

<http://github.com/choan/sugartest.tmbundle/tree/master>

Some triggers are shared with the jShoulda bundle, so you may want to
deactivate one of them.

Best.
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Choan