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[Asunit-users] Best way to use stage elements asunit

[Kevin N. <Cap...@un...>]

Hello,

I'm brand new to asunit, and I have some noob questions. :-)

How do you deal with named stage elements in unit testing? When I run 
the regular harness it complains (appropriately so) that the reference 
element has not been defined.

Do I have to switch off "Automatically declare stage instances" to be 
able to properly use asunit from within Flash IDE?

Thanks,

Kevin N.

Re: [Asunit-users] Best way to use stage elements asunit

[Luke B. <lb...@pa...>]

It's been a very long time since I've worked in the Authoring IDE.

Personally, I recommend using Authoring to build up named/exported
visual assets in the library and then using Flash Builder to actually
compile your application - with the [Embed] directive to reference
those entities.

My other open source project - http://projectsprouts.org could be a
way to make this transition a little easier....

Does anyone else have recommendations for testing from Authoring?

Thanks,

Luke

Re: [Asunit-users] Best way to use stage elements asunit

[Kevin N. <Cap...@un...>]

It occurred to me that I might simply have to embed a copy of the 
movieclip in the Test.fla - that would solve those missing references...

I'll try that. :-)

Kevin N.



On 11/25/09 4:19 PM, Luke Bayes wrote:
> It's been a very long time since I've worked in the Authoring IDE.
>
> Personally, I recommend using Authoring to build up named/exported
> visual assets in the library and then using Flash Builder to actually
> compile your application - with the [Embed] directive to reference
> those entities.
>
> My other open source project - http://projectsprouts.org could be a
> way to make this transition a little easier....
>
> Does anyone else have recommendations for testing from Authoring?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Luke
>
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Re: [Asunit-users] Best way to use stage elements asunit

[Luke B. <lb...@pa...>]

Like I said, it's been awhile since I've worked with Authoring.

You should definitely double check this by making some obvious change
to the source clip, then run your test to see if changes really
propagate across the FLA boundary...


lb.

Re: [Asunit-users] Best way to use stage elements asunit

[Kevin N. <Cap...@un...>]

A quick change did propagate, but I'll keep an eye on it.

I still have a lot to learn about how to use unit testing appropriately. 
I haven't gotten much farther than the tutorial code:

public function testInstantiated():void {
         assertTrue("MyClass instantiated", instance is MyClass);
}

I do think the concepts are sinking in though. It should be useful.

Thanks,

Kevin N.

Re: [Asunit-users] Best way to use stage elements asunit

[Kevin N. <Cap...@un...>]

Yes, that does work! I also ticked the "Always update before publishing" 
checkbox in the Symbol Propteries dialog, so that updates will make it 
into the test.

Hopefully that'll hold up over time. I guess I'll find out. :-)

Kevin N.


On 11/25/09 5:21 PM, Kevin Newman wrote:
> It occurred to me that I might simply have to embed a copy of the
> movieclip in the Test.fla - that would solve those missing references...
>
> I'll try that. :-)
>
> Kevin N.
>
>