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Unitils 3.3 Released

Unitils is an open source library aimed at making unit and integration testing easy and maintainable.

In this release a brand new module was added: io-unitils. This module adds support for creating temporary files or directories and for the loading of a file contents into a field. Take a look at the tutorial for more info.

We've also rolled out a first version of our new site layout.... read more

Unitils 3.1 Released

Unitils provides utilities to simplify unit-testing with JUnit or TestNG. It builds further on DBUnit and EasyMock and integrates with Hibernate and Spring. The goal is to make unit-testing easy and maintainable by offering utilities such as automatic DB-schema maintenance and equality assertion through reflection.

This release contains some important fixes for the mock module. ... read more

Unitils 3.0 Released

Unitils provides utilities to simplify unit-testing with JUnit or TestNG. It builds further on DBUnit and EasyMock and integrates with Hibernate and Spring. The goal is to make unit-testing easy and maintainable by offering utilities such as automatic DB-schema maintenance and equality assertion through reflection.

The unitils modules are now split up in separate applications and artifacts: ... read more

Unitils 2.3 Released

Unitils provides utilities to simplify unit-testing with JUnit or TestNG. It builds further on DBUnit and EasyMock and integrates with Hibernate and Spring. The goal is to make unit-testing easy and maintainable by offering utilities such as automatic DB-schema maintenance and equality assertion through reflection.

This minor release contains a new implementation of the expected dataset behavior, new argument matchers for the mock mock framework
and some other small features. It also contains important bug fixes for the mock framework.... read more

Unitils provides utilities to simplify unit-testing with JUnit or TestNG. It builds further on DBUnit and integrates with Hibernate and Spring. The goal is to make unit-testing easy and maintainable by offering utilities such as automatic DB-schema maintenance and equality assertion through reflection.

In this release, a new module has been added for testing with mock objects.

Unitils 1.1 Released

Unitils provides utilities to simplify unit-testing with JUnit or TestNG. It builds further on DBUnit and EasyMock and integrates with Hibernate and Spring. The goal is to make unit-testing easy and maintainable by offering utilities such as automatic DB-schema maintenance and equality assertion through reflection.

This release contains following improvements :

* A new version of the reflection assert: finds all differences and finds best matches in case of lenient order comparisons
* MS-Sql database support
* Handling of materialized views
* Some fixes to known issues... read more

Unitils provides utilities to simplify unit-testing with JUnit or TestNG. It builds further on DBUnit and EasyMock and integrates with Hibernate and Spring. The goal is to make unit-testing easy and maintainable by offering utilities such as automatic DB-schema maintenance and equality assertion through reflection.

In this release, some small issues have been resolved: Postgresql support is improved, the database version is correctly updated during a from-scratch update and a test is added to check whether the version table is correctly migrated. ... read more

Unitils provides utilities to simplify unit-testing with JUnit or TestNG. It builds further on DBUnit and EasyMock and integrates with Hibernate and Spring. The goal is to make unit-testing easy and maintainable by offering utilities such as automatic DB-schema maintenance and equality assertion through reflection.

Following features were introduced in this release: JPA integration, support for hierarchically organized database scripts, support for Oracle PL/SQL in database scripts.

Unitils 1.0 Released

Unitils provides utilities to simplify unit-testing with JUnit or TestNG. It builds further on DBUnit and EasyMock and integrates with Hibernate and Spring. The goal is to make unit-testing easy and maintainable by offering utilities such as automatic DB-schema maintenance and equality assertion through reflection.

After 5 release candidates we are proud to present the first major milestone release.
Big thanks to everyone who has helped us to make this possible!... read more

Unitils provides utilities to simplify unit-testing with JUnit or TestNG. It builds further on DBUnit and EasyMock and integrates with Hibernate and Spring. The goal is to make unit-testing easy and maintainable by offering utilities such as automatic DB-schema maintenance and equality assertion through reflection.

This release contains following improvements :

* JUnit 4.4 support
* Derby database support
* extra utility methods for database testing
* simplyfication of the Spring and Hibernate configuration logic
* some fixes to known issues... read more

Unitils provides utilities to simplify unit-testing with JUnit or TestNG. It builds further on DBUnit and EasyMock and integrates with Hibernate and Spring. The goal is to make unit-testing easy and maintainable by offering utilities such as automatic DB-schema maintenance and equality assertion through reflection.

This release contains following improvements :

* loading of multiple data sets
* added DatabaseUnitils for easy access to things like disabling of foreign key and not null constraints
* Some important bug-fixes:
** fix for SAXNotRecognized exception when loading data sets
** fix for SimpleTransactionManager behavior... read more

Unitils provides utilities to simplify unit-testing with JUnit or TestNG. It builds further on DBUnit and EasyMock and integrates with Hibernate and Spring. The goal is to make unit-testing easy and maintainable by offering utilities such as automatic DB-schema maintenance and equality assertion through reflection.

This release contains following improvements:
* transactional testing
* multi-schema database support
* support for Db2... read more

Unitils provides utilities to simplify unit-testing with JUnit or TestNG. It builds further on DBUnit and EasyMock and integrates with Hibernate and Spring. The goal is to make unit-testing easy and maintainable by offering utilities such as automatic DB-schema maintenance and equality assertion through reflection.

This release contains following improvements:
* support for extra databases: PostgreSql, Oracle XE and Oracle 10
* simplification, refactoring and fixes to the existing functionality... read more

Unitils provides utilities to simplify unit-testing with JUnit or TestNG. It builds further on DBUnit and EasyMock and integrates with Hibernate and Spring. The goal is to make unit-testing easy and maintainable by offering utilities such as automatic DB-schema maintenance and equality assertion through reflection.

This release contains following improvements :
* integration with Spring
* simplification and fixes to the existing functionality, such as the integration with Hibernate and DbUnit
* updates to the tutorial, guidelines and cookbook... read more

Unitils is a new open source library aimed at simplifying unit testing using JUnit or TestNG.
Unitils builds further on existing libraries like DBUnit and EasyMock. It was started as a small framework of base classes, providing support for a number of guidelines and best practices in unit testing.

Currently Unitils offers following features:

General testing utilities:
* Equality assertion through reflection, with different options like ignoring Java default/null values and ignoring order of collections... read more