Features

Reflection assert

• Equality assertion through reflection
• Possibility to ignore order of collections and Java default/null values

Mock module - Makes mocking easy and maintainable

• Simple syntax for defining and asserting invoked behavior
• Gives you the best possible feedback so you can easily find out why a test is failing
• Argument matchers, partial mocking, stubbing behavior, dummy objects...

Inject module - Easily inject test artifacts into classes and instances

• Inject values by type and name
• Inject into static fields, e.g. singletons, and automatically reset the old value after the test

IO module - Support for performing IO in tests

• Creating temporary files and directories
• Loading the contents of files into objects

Database testing - Support for testing with databases and loading of DbUnit data sets

• Simplify test database connection setup
• Support for setting up a separate schema/database per developer
• Transactional testing
• Easy loading of data sets
• Multi-schema data sets
• Expected data set assertions

Automatic test database maintenance - Use DbMaintain to automatically bring your unit test databases up to date before running your tests

• Automatic maintenance of databases with support for incremental, repeatable and post processing scripts
• Automatically disable constraints and set sequences to a minimum value
• Generating an XSD of the database structure for dataset xml files

Hibernate module - Support for Hibernate database testing

• Hibernate SessionFactory creation and session management
• Automatically test the mapping of JPA entities / hibernate mapped objects with the database

Spring module - Support for testing when your project uses Spring

• ApplicationContext configuration and easy injection of spring managed beans into a unit test
• Support for using a Spring-configured Hibernate SessionFactory in unit tests.

EasyMock module - Helps you set up tests that use EasyMock as a mocking framework

• Simplify EasyMock mock object creation
• EasyMock argument matching using reflection equality

News

2011-12-22 - Release of Unitils 3.3

In this release a brand new module was added: io-unitils. This module adds support for creating temporary files or directories and for the loading of a file contents into a field. Take a look at the tutorial for more info.

We've also rolled out a first version of our new site layout.

Check the release notes for more details.

2011-09-29 - Release of Unitils 3.2

It's been a while since our last release, but now we're back. There's a new team, we're completely redoing the website and there are a lot of new features in the pipeline.

This first release contains an update of the mocking and inject module and some minor fixes to the reflection assert.

A 3.3 release is planned for the end of October, a new major release is planned for the beginning of next year.

Check the release notes for more details.