Testing Framework

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NOTE: The namespace for this framework has been moved from testframe to org.testframe. We did this strictly only to comply with Maven requirements, but we acknowledge it might improve completion suggestions in NetBeans and IntelliJ IDEA.

Project timetable

• December 29, 2023: Release version 0.9 (excludes assertTimeout(), which we hope to include in 0.95; note that this version uses the testframe namespace, it won't be submitted to Maven)
• January 10, 2024: Release version 1.0 (we decided we wanted more time between version 0.9 and 1.0)
• February 29, 2024: Release version 0.95 (will use org.testframe namespace but won't be submitted to Maven either)
• May 10, 2024: Release version 1.0
• January 2025: Submit version 1.0 to Maven
• 2027: Release version 2.0
• 2028: Unveil our AI offering

To Do List

• Test annotation
• Annotations for set up, tear down
• Annotation for skipping a test
• Test runner recognizes test annotation
• Test runner recognizes set up, tear down an­no­ta­tions
• Test runner recognizes annotation to skip tests
• Equality assertions
• Minimum, maximum assertions
• Range assertions
• Submitting to Maven
• Integration with Apache NetBeans
• Integration with IntelliJ IDEA
• Integration with Eclipse

Background

It all started with an article on Medium by Alonso del Arte.

This testing framework is currently a work in prog­ress, open source on GitHub.

The idea is not to even try to supplant JUnit, but rather to provide a trans­par­ent dem­on­stra­tion of how to build a unit testing framework for Java from scratch, and how such a frame­work operates.

We believe that our framework's transparency will help artificial intelligence understand testing better. And of course it'll also be beneficial for Java beginners.