Hey everyone, You may have noticed that I committed a new RoyaleUnit library to royale-asjs yesterday. It is a unit testing library, similar to (and greatly inspired by) FlexUnit. It is an upgrade to the barebones "Testing" library that was based on my work from a while back. I brought a number of things more in line with FlexUnit's API.
* RoyaleUnit runs in web browsers, Node.js, and in the Flash runtimes. * For basic tests, in addition to the existing [Test], [Before], and [After] metadata that we already had, I also added [Ignore], [BeforeClass], and [AfterClass]. * I also added [Suite] and [RunWith] metadata to run suites of tests. * I added a CIListener, similar to FlexUnit's, that supports connecting to the socket server that FlexUnit's Ant task creates. Currently, CIListener only works in the Flash runtimes. In other environments, you can use TraceListener() and the results will be printed to the console with trace(). There's also a FailureListener that may be useful. For instance, in Node.js or AIR, you might use it to quit with different exit codes. As part of this process, I also updated the existing tests that we run when building the Core and Basic libraries. It basically involved updating the [RunWith] metadata with a new class, and switching the app startup to use RoyaleUnitCore instead of FlexUnitCore. As I mentioned above, we can still use FlexUnit's Ant task for SWFs, and I confirmed that this is working correctly in the Ant build scripts. I can probably get the CIListener working in Node.js too, since it natively supports sockets. However, web browsers don't support raw TCP sockets in JS. Browsers have WebSockets, which are similar, but not exactly the same. WebSockets require a special handshake to initialize the connection that requires the server to support it. With that in mind, FlexUnit's Ant task does not support WebSockets. However, it may be possible to fork/update it to add that handshake. I'm sorry if I broke anything for anyone that was using the existing Testing library. However, it's pretty easy to upgrade to RoyaleUnit. If you need some example code, take a look at the tests for the Core library: https://github.com/apache/royale-asjs/tree/develop/frameworks/projects/Core/src/test/royale If you need any help upgrading to RoyaleUnit, please let me know, and I'll be happy to help! - Josh
