The idea isn't to supplant JUnit or any other existing unit testing framework, but to understand how a testing framework could be created from scratch through test-driven development (TDD) without recourse to any existing testing framework.
For this project, we acknowledge the existence of frameworks like TestNG, and we do use ideas from those frameworks, but we won't be using those frameworks directly (except maybe as a formality in NetBeans to get the proper separation between Source Packages and Test Packages started).
For instructions on how to use this testing framework, see How to Use This Framework. For instructions on how to contribute to this project, see CONTRIBUTING.md.
Note that although we've upgraded to Java 21, the releases 0.9, 0.95 and 1.0 and 1.01 were all compiled with Java 8.
Obviously this testing framework is a test dependency and should be put in test
libraries rather than source libraries. However, other items in the
org.testframe namespace, like the warnings library, are meant to be source
libraries. Those will be provided in separate JARs.
- Early users beta, December 30, 2023. This was very bare bones.
- 0.95, March 30, 2024. This was much closer to usable.
- 1.0, July 10, 2024. Pretty much everything I wanted the first official release to have.
- 1.01, March 3, 2025. I discovered
assertInRange()was missing the customized messages for parameters of typedouble, so I patched that.