Speaking of good tools
FEST-assert (http://fest.easytesting.org/ fluent assertions) is pretty neat too.

Emmanuel

On 19 janv. 2011, at 17:32, Hardy Ferentschik wrote:

> On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 17:23:14 +0100, Emmanuel Bernard <emman...@hibernate.org> 
> wrote:
> 
>> AFAIK we stayed on JUnit 3.8 to keep 1.4 compatibility.
>> Now that this is gone, what do you think about moving to JUnit 4.8
> 
> I think moving to JUnit 4.8 shouldn't be hard, especially since it contains a 
> Junit 3
> runner so that you don't have to convert all test in one go.
> 
> If I remember correctly there was always another reason except the Java 1.4 
> compatibility.
> I think it had to do with how test classes are instantiated. For this reason 
> we also
> discussed once testNG (which also had some shortcomings)
> 
>> There are a few interesting new features besides the annotation goodness.
>> I am particularly interested in Rules which is essentially behavioral 
>> injection before / after test
>> http://kentbeck.github.com/junit/doc/ReleaseNotes4.7.html
> 
> I've seen a presentation once about someone using rules and it looked 
> interesting.
> As said, I don't think it should be hard to switch to JUnit 4. However, the 
> more
> specific features we are going to use the harder a potential switch of 
> frameworks
> become.
> 
> Maybe Steve can fill us in again which particular problem there was with 
> JUnit.
> 
> --Hardy
> 
> 


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