Although I haven't got the DRK or seen the code for CFUnit, what I gather from Christian's article is that the CFUnit "framework" is merely just one single CFC!! i.e. it is vastly simplified compared with JUnit.
Again, this is mostly guess work but it probably goes something like this: A singe CFC called TestCase.cfc containing a method run(). This run method implements the Template Method design pattern i.e. it calls some other private methods like setUp() and teardown() etc. At some point during the proceedings CFC metadata is used to introspect the CFC for all methods beginning with "test". These test methods are called one by one. Inside of each of the test methods you invoke the CFC you are testing and subsequently invoke some "assertion" methods (which are defined in the base TestCase.cfc). These assertion methods are presumably fairly trivial and comprise of things like assertEquals, assertTrue etc. Obviously you can add your own assert methods to the base class as needed. Again, I'm guessing but I think all these assert methods do is output an HTML table row with the results of the assertion. I could be way off because as I said I haven't seen the implementation of CFUnit but I think that's pretty much it i.e. ONE CFC! And no where near as complex as JUnit. On your point about having an "equals" method: This would be feasible if the CFC you were testing implemented and "equals" method which was able to tell whether it was equal to another CFC by way of comparing instance variables/object state etc. i.e. it would require a custom implementation of an equals() method for every CFC that you built - just as you would have to do in Java (using the default implementation of equals() defined in the Object base class that everything extends USUALLY doesn't provide the results you are after) André -----Original Message----- From: webguy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 July 2003 18:06 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: CFUnit > It can quite easily be transferred to CFC. I started down this road but found several barriers to replicating junit in CFMX for testing cfcs. when is "object a" equal to "object b" for example. If anyone has replicated the example in the Junit example (called test infected I think? ) in cf I'd love to see it. testing custom tags, I guess would be easier as you can look for the output your are expecting. What can you do/test with the DRK CFunit? > Unfortunately, there are some of us that can't afford the DRKs!! Well I'd prefer an ipod. WG -----Original Message----- From: Andre Mohamed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 July 2003 17:48 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: CFUnit I'm hoping it will be released separately....or continue writing my own version. It's not hard to do and have already developed a version for unit testing custom tags. See the links I just posted to see how you could implement your own (even more comprehensive) version. Unfortunately, there are some of us that can't afford the DRKs!! André -----Original Message----- From: webguy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 July 2003 17:49 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: CFUnit Anyway to get this without the drk ? -----Original Message----- From: Raymond Camden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 July 2003 17:33 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: CFUnit Christian Cantrall. And it rocks. I _love_ the unit tester (and even added some more stuff to it). ======================================================================== === Raymond Camden, ColdFusion Jedi Master for Mindseye, Inc (www.mindseye.com) Member of Team Macromedia (http://www.macromedia.com/go/teammacromedia) Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Blog : www.camdenfamily.com/morpheus/blog Yahoo IM : morpheus "My ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is." - Yoda > -----Original Message----- > From: Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 10:30 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: CFUnit > > > Anyone got any ideas who came up with the CFUnit stuff on the > DRK3? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
