minitest version 5.9.0 has been released!

Published 2016-05-16 @ 15:23

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/test 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/test 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/test 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:

5.9.0 / 2016-05-16

• 8 minor enhancements:

  • Added Minitest.info_signal accessors to customize signal for test run info. (nate)
  • Added assert_mock to make it more clear that you’re testing w/ them.
  • Added negative filter by test name. (utilum)
  • Added warning to README that 1.8 and 1.9 support will be dropped in minitest 6.
  • Automatically activate minitest/hell if $MT_HELL is defined.
  • Improved default error messages for assert and refute. (bhenderson)
  • minitest/hell now tries to require minitest/proveit
  • mu_pp for strings prints out non-standard encodings to improve assert_equal diffs.

• 1 bug fix:

  • Removed Interrupt from PASSTHROUGH_EXCEPTIONS (already handled). (waldyr)
• 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