Re: [Vala] Unit Testing in Vala

[Jim Nelson <jim yorba org>]

For the record, Yorba attempted to contact the original developer of Valadate and received no response.  We 
had some testing needs awhile back, and so we forked.  The work we did was not to add features, but merely to 
rip things out to get it to compile with the then-current version of Vala.

You are correct, we're not currently using or developing Valadate.  We would like it if someone stepped up to 
take over the project.  The code is most likely suffering from bit rot and could use some attention.  
Unfortunately, we have our hands full with other projects and can't spend the time it would take.

-- Jim

On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 6:49 AM, Steven Oliver <oliver steven gmail com> wrote:
There are a couple of unit testing frameworks out there for Vala. I know 
there a multitude of frameworks people have written themselves for 
themselves that aren't really published as stand alone projects. Given that 
I'd like to start putting some testing in a project I'm working on and I 
had a few questions for the audience. 

It appears to me that Valadate is the most "mature" testing platform out 
there. I've noticed it's "hosted" on Gitorious but it appears that Yorba 
has cloned it on their server and have made updates to it that never made 
it back to Gitorious. It also appears that despite hosting Valadate Yorba 
doesn't actually use it. * puzzled * 

Is there anything else out there worth looking at? Or at lest ones that 
have seen updates in the past 2 years? And finally, what is everyone doing 
for unit testing? It appears to be something a lot of projects don't really 
do anymore. 

Steven N. Oliver