Minitest 4.5.0 Released

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minitest version 4.5.0 has been released!

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

"I had a class with Jim W. on testing last week and we were
 allowed to choose our testing frameworks. Kirk H. 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 B., 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. :stuck_out_tongue:

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 S.

Comparing to rspec:

rspec is a testing DSL. minitest is ruby.

-- Adam H., "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:

4.5.0 / 2013-01-22

  • 1 major enhancement:

    • Rearranged minitest/unit.rb so NO parallelization code is
      loaded/used until you opt-in.

  • 4 minor enhancements:

    • Added TestCase#skipped? for teardown guards
    • Added maglev? guard
    • Document that record can be sent twice if teardown fails or errors
      (randycoulman)
    • Errors in teardown are now recorded. (randycoulman)

  • 3 bug fixes:

    • Added hacks and skips to get clean test runs on maglev
    • Modified float tests for maglev float output differences. Not sure
      this is right. Not sure I care.
    • Test for existance of diff.exe instead of assuming they have devkit.
      (blowmage/Cumbayah)