[Asunit-users] Fwd: [flexcoders] AsUnit 3.0 alpha released!

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

Hey Robert,

Here's a great article on Test-Driven Development:
http://junit.sourceforge.net/doc/testinfected/testing.htm

Essentially, AsUnit 3.x is built directly from the JUnit source code. It is
a pure ActionScript framework that allows you to construct test fixtures fo=
r
your applications. It lets you build each encapsulated element of an
application, test it, gaurantee it's functionality and then through
continuous integration, grow your application over time with confidence. If
at any point, you break some long-forgotten entity, your test fixture will
notify you immediately with exactly what is broken and why it broke. If you
later expose issues (bugs) that went originally untested, you can develop a
new test that exposes the behavior, then fix it and be assured that it won'=
t
be reintroduced.

This is an alternative approach to what's known as "Waterfall" development,
and without a clean unit test framework, it's very difficult to implement..=
.

Thanks for asking!


Luke Bayes
www.asunit.com <http://www.asunit.com>


On 11/7/05, Robert Thompson wrote:
>
> Luke, could you please explain just what AsUnit does that's so special?
>  thx
>