minitest version 5.6.0 has been released!

Published 2015-04-13 @ 15:08

minitest provides a complete suite of testing facilities supporting TDD, BDD, mocking, and benchmarking.

"I had a class with Jim Weirich on testing last week and we were
 allowed to choose our testing frameworks. Kirk Haines and I were
 paired up and we cracked open the code for a few test
 frameworks...

 I MUST say that minitest is *very* readable / understandable
 compared to the 'other two' options we looked at. Nicely done and
 thank you for helping us keep our mental sanity."

-- Wayne E. Seguin

minitest/unit is a small and incredibly fast unit testing framework. It provides a rich set of assertions to make your tests clean and readable.

minitest/spec is a functionally complete spec engine. It hooks onto minitest/unit and seamlessly bridges test assertions over to spec expectations.

minitest/benchmark is an awesome way to assert the performance of your algorithms in a repeatable manner. Now you can assert that your newb co-worker doesn’t replace your linear algorithm with an exponential one!

minitest/mock by Steven Baker, is a beautifully tiny mock (and stub) object framework.

minitest/pride shows pride in testing and adds coloring to your test output. I guess it is an example of how to write IO pipes too. :P

minitest/unit is meant to have a clean implementation for language implementors that need a minimal set of methods to bootstrap a working test suite. For example, there is no magic involved for test-case discovery.

"Again, I can't praise enough the idea of a testing/specing
 framework that I can actually read in full in one sitting!"

-- Piotr Szotkowski

Comparing to rspec:

rspec is a testing DSL. minitest is ruby.

-- Adam Hawkins, "Bow Before MiniTest"

minitest doesn’t reinvent anything that ruby already provides, like: classes, modules, inheritance, methods. This means you only have to learn ruby to use minitest and all of your regular OO practices like extract-method refactorings still apply.

Changes:

5.6.0 / 2015-04-13

• 4 major enhancements:

  • Added Minitest::Expectation value monad.
  • Added Minitest::Expectations#_ that returns an Expectation. Aliased to value.
  • All expectations are added to Minitest::Expectation.
  • At some point, the methods on Object will be deprecated and then removed.

• 4 minor enhancements:

  • Added a note about bundle exec pitfall in ruby 2.2+. (searls)
  • Lazily start the parallel executor. (tenderlove)
  • Make mocks more debugger-friendly (edward)
  • Print out the current test run on interrupt. (riffraff)

• 3 bug fixes:

  • Fix failing test under Windows. (kimhmadsen)
  • Record mocked calls before they happen so mocks can raise exceptions easier (tho I’m not a fan). (corecode)
  • Tried to clarify mocks vs stubs terminology better. (kkirsche)
• home: https://github.com/seattlerb/minitest
• bugs: https://github.com/seattlerb/minitest/issues
• rdoc: http://docs.seattlerb.org/minitest
• vim: https://github.com/sunaku/vim-ruby-minitest
• emacs: https://github.com/arthurnn/minitest-emacs