nosewheelie

I’m happy to announce the release of Instinct 0.1.6. Thanks to all our new users and especially to the guys at VLC & SAP who’ve helped us apply Instinct in anger, and Sanjiv, who’s come on board with development.

Downloads are available from the project site.

This release includes a raft of updates, most notably auto-creation of specification doubles (mocks, stubs & dummies), automatic reset and verification of mocks, a cleanup of the state-based expectation API, fixes for Eclipse JUnit integration, custom classpath support in the Ant task and inherited contexts.

Here’s the full list of updates:

Core

• Remove the need for @Context annotation.
• Automatic creation of specification doubles: mocks, stubs and dummies.
• Automatic reset and verification of mocks.
• @BeforeSpecification?, @AfterSpecification?, @Specifications (and naming convention equivalents) can be used across base and subclasses.

Expectation API

• Make expectations more like natural language. eg. isEqualTo(), doesNotEqual(), etc. Existing code using equalTo(), etc. will need to be updated.
• Collection checkers: hasTheSameContentAs(Collection) and hasTheSameContentAs(E…). These only check content and not the order of elements.
• Ensure all “collection” classes (Array, Map, Set, List, String, SharSequence?) have similar size checkers available.
• Added file checker
• Better error messages for hasBeanProperty and hasBeanPropertyWithValue.

JUnit integration

• Fix Eclipse unrooted context.

Ant integration

• Support for custom classpath.
• Quiet specification result formatting (only shows errors and pending specs).
• Use correct project logging level for errors, etc.

jMock integration

• Support states: Mockery.states(String).

Infrastructure

• Removed reliance on Boost, transferred all relevant Boost classes locally.
• jMock 2.4.
• Downgraded to CGLib 2.1.3 (for Maven integration).

Bugs

• Miscellaneous NullPointerExceptions? and null related problems in state expectation API.
• (defect-3) IterableChecker? should have a containsOnly method or something.
• (defect-8) @BeforeSpecification? does not run if implemented in an abstract base class.
• (defect-20) CEclipse Junit4 InstinctRunner? shows tests under the “Unrooted Tests” node.
• (defect-22) Context treeview shows baseclass and subclass when only subclass is run.
• (defect-23) Overridden specifications run twice.