Summary of Changes between 3.3 and 3.4

    • Eliminated code in ActiveTestSuite that could not compile in VA/Java.
    • Fixed bug related to incorrect error progress feedback when running a single test.

    Summary of Changes between 3.2 and 3.3

    Framework

    • Fixed Assert.assertEquals(double,double,double) when the actual value is a Double.NaN.

    Extensions

    • Fixed ActiveTest support. Replaced ActiveTest with an ActiveTestSuite, the ActiveTestSuite waits until the tests running in separate threads have finished.
    • Added an example that illustrates how to launch a new VM for running a Test - see TextRunnerTest.java.

    TestRunner

    • Refactored the TestRunner classes, they now all descend from junit.runner.BaseTestRunner.
    • Eliminated the non-loading/loading TestRunner flavors. All TestRunners are now loading by default except when the TestRunners detect that they run inside VA/Java (BaseTestRunner.getLoader()).
    • Added a junit.properties file for preference settings. It is stored in the folder referred to by the "user.home" property. The supported setting is loading, it can be set to true or false to enable or disable the loading behavior.
    • Renamed junit.ui to junit.awtui (with backward compatibility).
    • Renamed junit.utils to junit.runner.
    • You can now put test cases that should be reloaded into a JAR file. The TestCaseClassLoader now supports a simple version of class loading from a JAR file.
    • Simplified  invoking the TestRunners programmatically. They now all support a static method run(Class test).
    • Clarified the exit behavior of junit.textui.TestRunner:
      • TestRunner only exits the VM when it is invoked by main, when the TestRunner is invoked by run() it will not explicitly exit and terminate the VM.
      • TestRunner exits with 0 when the tests passed.

    Release

    • Removed VA/Java specific installation support

    Summary of Changes between 3.1 and 3.2

    • Fixed bug in the handling of inherited test methods.
    • The junit.swing.TestRunner support selective test execution. A Test Browser shows the contents of the entered test suite as a tree and you can select the test case to be run. The Test Browser can be launched from JUnit menu.
    • The history file of junit.swingui.TestRunner is stored in .junit on non Windows platforms.
    • Support for rerunning a failed test was previously only available inside VisualAge for Java. It is now generally available when using the LoadingTestRunners.
    • The junit.textui.TestRunner exits with -1 when the test run fails.

    Summary of Changes between 2.1 and 3.1

    JUnit Framework

    • TestSuite now extracts inherited test methods. The test extraction stops at the first class that doesn't implement Test.
    • Added support for TestListeners. A TestListeners observes changes to the TestResult. It enables to have multiple observers on the same result and allowed us to delete the TestResult subclasses (parallel class hierarchy) as the TestRunners now implement TestListener. It also allows clients to generate additional kinds of test run feedback.
    • Added an ExceptionTestCase class. A TestCase that expects a particular exception to be thrown.
    • Fixed TestSetup so that errors in setUp are caught and reported correctly.
    • Assertion checks where moved from TestCase into a separate Assert class. This enables programming by contract.
    • Added support for protected blocks. A protected block has to implement the Protectable interface. We used it to factor out a common template method to run tests. To implement your own protected block that logs thrown exceptions, pass a Protectable to TestResult.runProtected().
    • Clarified and deprecated method names in TestResult: testErrors, testFailures and runTests are now called errorCount, failureCount and runCount.
    • TestCase.getResult got removed you can add access to the current TestResult in your own TestCase subclasses.
    • TestCase.setUp() and tearDown() now throw a Throwable, so you can allow exceptions in setUp() to propagate.

    TestRunner

    • There is a new version of a Swing based graphical TestRunner. It supports a combo box with a persistent history of ran test suites. You can start it with:

      •     java junit.swingui.TestRunner
      There is also a LoadingTestRunner for Swing. The Swing TestRunner requires Swing 1.1 (javax.swing package structure) or jdk 1.2.
    • Some common code among the TestRunners was moved into the package junit.util.
    • The batch TestRunner unit.textui.TestRunner can now be given a PrintStream to output the results to.
    • The batch TestRunner can be given a class to run directly. To start the batch runner from your main you can write:

      • public static void main(String args[]) {
        junit.textui.TestRunner.run(MoneyTest.class);
      }

    Documentation

    • There is a new article: JUnit a cook's tour included.

    Release

    • We no longer provide a .dat file for VAJ users. You install JUnit into VAJ by importing the resources from the junit.jar and the sources from the src.zip files.