DUnitX Overview
DUnitX is a new test framework, taking ideas from DUnit, NUnit and other test frameworks. It is designed to work with Delphi 2010 or later, it makes use of language/RTL features that are not available in older versions of Delphi.
DUnitX Features
- Any class can contain tests
- Attribute based testing
- An extensive Assert Class
- Setup and TearDown per test method and per test fixture.
- API Documented using Xml-Doc
- Console Based Runner
- XML Logging
- produces output compatible with NUnit (compatible with CI servers like ContinuaCI)
- produces output compatible with JUnit (compatible with Gitlab CI)
- Cross platform currently supporting:
- Win32,Win64 and OSX Compilers.
- Limited backwards compatibility with DUnit test classes.
- Wizard for creating new tests.
DUnitX Planned Features
This is far from a complete list, but a few planned features are listed here to help indicate future direction.
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GUI Test Runner– Use TestInsight - Multi-threaded tests – the ability to have test fixtures run in their own
threads. - Remote logging – Simple way to run tests on remote machines (just an idea at this point)
- Data driven test cases – the ability to provide a test method with a data source and test each entry in the data source. The data source will be virtualised so it can be anything (text file, db table etc).
Tips and Tricks
- In order to workaround the Delphi XE3 Bug, you need to add the unit DUnitX.Init to your test projects.
- To use this GitHub version of DUnitX in place of the bundled version included with RAD Studio, it’s pretty simple by following these steps (as the bundled version is quite a few commits behind this repo):
- Remove the Embarcadero Unit test package (DUnitXIDEExpertXXX.bpl) from the installed packages list.
- In the cloned repo, open DUnitX_IDE_Expert_XXXX.dproj (matching your Delphi version), compile and install the package.
- In your unit test projects, adjust your search paths to point to the repo\\Source folder.
Support
A Delphi Praxis Forum has been setup to discuss DUnitX.
Contributors
A recent list of contributors can always be obtained on GitHub.
License
Apache Version 2.0
Copyright (C) 2012-2016 Vincent Parrett
vincent@finalbuilder.com
http://www.f*inalbui*ld*er.com
See license.txt for details.
