Smoketest – Deltics

Big Updates to Smoketest 2.x

[Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes] A little over a year ago, I released Smoketest 2.0, a complete re-write of the Smoketest unit testing framework first implemented some years ago. Other things then consumed my time, but in the past couple of months, Smoketest has rapidly progressed through no less than 4 (four!) fairly significant feature updates as I have extended it to support my testing needs in other projects. Today I released v2.4.0, and though it was about time (read: long overdue!), I shared some of the new features. As you might have gathered from my recent post on an exception handling bug in the Delphi 10.4.1 x86 compiler, exceptions have been a recent focus, so I’ll start with the changes in that area.

Smoketest 2.0.3 Update

[Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes] An overview of the changes in Smoketest 2.0.3 including Setup/Teardown methods and improved formatting of console output.

Introducing: Smoketest 2.0

[Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes] Meet the new Smoketest. Nothing like the old Smoketest. A new, ultra-lightweight unit testing framework with xUnit 2.x result output (and the ability to support other output formats as needed).

DUnit Compatibility in Smoketest

[Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes] To address some odd concerns about differences between DUnit and Smoketest, I thought it would be useful to demonstrate how it is entirely within the gift of a Smoketest user to create their own “comfort” layer, to make using Smoketest more similar to the DUnit framework if they wish (though why in that case they wouldn’t simply use DUnit, I can’t quite fathom. But still).

Smoketest – Performance Case Visualisations

[Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes] This post is a peek behind the curtain of the next major update to Smoketest which I hope to have completed shortly: Performance Case visualisations.

Smoketest – Interfaces vs Inheritance

[Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes] A couple of commenters on my previous post have taken issue with my use of interfaces to form contracts between test cases and the test framework, rather than using simple virtual methods and inheritance as found in DUnit. I thought it would be interesting to illustrate why I went down this route.

Smoketest – Set Me Up / Tear Me Down

[Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes] In a previous post I demonstrated how the default “pretty name” for a Smoketest test case (derived from the test case classname) can be over-ridden by a test developer by implementing a specific interface (INameCase) on the test case class itself. There are some other interfaces that can be implemented on a test case, including interfaces that allow a test case to implement housekeeping tasks for the tests it provides.

Smoketest – Some Differences With DUnit

[Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes] Writing tests in Smoketest is intended to enable a test developer to write tests in a way that describe themselves, without requiring the test developer to add this “narrative” themselves. To see this in action, I thought I would compare some simple DUnit tests with the equivalent using the Smoketest framework.

Smoketest 1.0 – Release and Be Damned!

[Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes] As I have been promising for some time (quite literally 5 years (!), I am ashamed to admit) I am finally unclenching and releasing the Smoketest framework into the wild, ready or not. The code is published and will continue to be updated in a github repository.

Extending Smoketest (Part 2) – Great(er) Expectations

[Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes] In my previous post on Smoketest I showed how you can extend the inspections framework to work with complex types in your code. As promised, I shall now show how you can do much the same thing to extend the framework with entirely new tests.

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