ASTUce: ActionScript Test Unit compact edition

ASTUce is a regression testing framework inspired by the xUnit architecture.

This framework is intended for developers who wish to implement unit tests in ECMAScript (ECMA-262) and ActionScript 3.

Features:

• work with any ECMA-262 compliant hosts
• work with any ES4/AS3 compliant hosts
• simple to install and to use
• same API everywhere
• code reflection
• easily localizable
• run your unit tests on the command-line (integrate with Ant, Maven, server-side, etc.)

Releases:

• ASTUce CLI v0.1 for AS3
• command-line client (single exe, no dependencies)
• cross-platform (OS X, Linux, Windows)
• work with build tools like ant (see an example here with gaforflash and the output result)
• tag: ASTUce CLI v0.1.0

• ASTUce v0.9 for AS3
• stable release in the download section
• SWC for Flash CS3 and Flex Builder 3
• tag: ASTUce v0.9.0 stable (AS3)
• ASTUce for JS/AS1/AS2
• we decided to stop working on those versions to focus on AS3
• if you need support or want to add features for those versions contributor spots are always open (and we will help)

News

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if you use the framework and/or the command-line client please show it :)

FAQ

• Why another AS3 xUnit framework ?

ASTUce exists since Flash 5, it started as an AS1/JS project, then was ported to AS2 and later AS3

• Why I never heard about it before ?

because we sucks at PR / Marketing.

• I want to contribute what should I do ?

please go to the Contributors page and fill the form.

• Does it really run on the command-line ?

yes.

• How can you make it run on the command-line ?

We extended the Tamarin project with redtamarin to produce cross-platform executables
that act like the Flash Player on the command line
and then we embedded the ASTUce AS3 library to produce an ASTUce executable.

• But how do you load and execute the unit tests in the ASTUce executable ?

For a a SWF we extract the ABC and then load it in the Domain (or ApplicationDomain) dynamically, and run the tests from memory.

• Does the ASTUce executable work with Ant ?

yes, here a basic example

<exec executable="./ASTUce" failonerror="true">
    <arg line="-s" />
    <arg line="-l:my-tests.swf" />
    <arg line="my.package.AllTests" />
</exec>

misc

the project owners can be contacted here: their username [at] gmail [dot] com

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