Thanks Errol, your blog is very useful. I found FlexUnit most discussed and endorsed by Adobe, that's why assumed it's a leader of the pack, I didn't do any tech research on it though.
Maciek, thanks for your feedback on FlexMonkey, it definitely gives me enough confidence to give it a go. Alen On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 5:49 AM, Maciek Sakrejda <[email protected]>wrote: > For what it's worth, it's true that FlexMonkey is not a unit testing > framework (it's more about generating functional tests for the UI), but > it's fantastic (especially 0.6+). I first found out about it from this > list earlier this week, and about a day later, I started moving our > tests to it (from FunFX). > > Initially getting it working in Flex 3.0 was a pain (it is built against > a library that was built against 3.1, which introduced some breaking api > changes), but now that it's running, it's a great tool. It records > interactions and essentially generates FlexUnit tests for you (in > theory, it can generate test for any unit testing framework with > asynchronous test case support, but it's currently tied into FlexUnit). > I highly recommend it. > -- > Maciek Sakrejda > Truviso, Inc. > http://www.truviso.com > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Errol Thompson <[email protected] <kiwiet%40acm.org>> > Reply-To: [email protected] <flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > To: [email protected] <flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Which Unit Testing Framework to use? > Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 13:00:02 +1300 > > > After a brief search on flex unit testing I found that > > FlexUnit is supposed to be the leader of the pack. > > I am interested in why you think FlexUnit is the leader of the pack. I > know > that Adobe have adopted it but its syntax for asserts and assert options > are > limited. On my blog > (http://kiwi-et.blogspot.com/2008/12/assertive-tests.html), I compared > the > asserts available for FlexUnit, Fluint, FUnit, and FluxUint. I have > written > other blogs which talk about the differences between the frameworks. I > haven't explored the use of FlexMonkey as the description of what it did > didn't match my requirements. > > On my current project, we are using FlexUnit. > > --------------------------------- > Errol Thompson > Kiwi-ET Computing Education Research > Wellington, New Zealand > Phone: +64 21 210 1662 > E-Mail: kiwiet (at) acm.org > kiwiet (at) computer.org > Web: www.teach.thompsonz.net > --------------------------------- > > >
