Re: [Vala] Unit Testing in Vala

[Evan Nemerson <evan coeus-group com>]

On Fri, 2012-10-19 at 09:49 -0400, Steven Oliver 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.

All of the unit testing projects people have written in Vala which I'm
aware of are now unmaintained.  I think most Vala projects which have
unit tests simply use the testing framework built into GLib.

http://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-Testing.html
http://valadoc.org/glib-2.0/GLib.Test.html


-Evan