Road Map by Release

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Release 0.1.10

• Core Features
  • Improved stub creation
    • Interfaces, recursive constructor arguments.
    • Stub creation for classes containing non-constructor initialised methods (these may produce NPEs).
  • Specification groups.
  • Allow embedded contexts.
  • Automatic creation of specifications actors for inherited and nested contexts.
  • Automatic creation of subjects.
  • Naming conventions (Default prefi & Impl suffix) for automatic subject creation.
  • Move timing code from CommandLineRunner into BriefResultsFormatter.
• Expectation API
  • Improve behaviour expectation syntax (see sandbox).
  • Exception checking - See Boost's assertThrows, inc.
  • Trait checking - Serializable, rejects null - expect.that(Foo.class).isSerializable(), expect.that(Foo.class).rejectsNullsInPublicMethods()
  • More functional java matchers
    • Option
    • Either
• sbt integration
  • [http://code.google.com/p/simple-build-tool/wiki/TestFrameworkExtensions Basic integration
• Ant integration
  • Add watchdog around forked VM.
  • Intermittent classpath issues.
  • Clean up termination and detection of failures using the failure property.
  • JUnit Integration
    • TestDox output formatter, see JDave for details.
    • RSpec HTML output format.
    • Confirm JUnit runner behaviour in Eclipse (Ctrl-Shift-F10 equivalent).
    • Custom extension to expectation API (via interface composer).
  • Prototype Scala API
  • Misc
    • Checkstyle errors on Windows.
    • defect-24

Release 0.2.0

• Documentation
  • Document lifecycle - how to extend, how to get callbacks for special behaviour.
• Build
  • Add simian
  • Self host all current tests.
  • Test coverage to 100%
  • Fail release build if any fixes left for that release.
• Infrastructure
  • Rationalise JAR packaging (single, multiple?).
• Ant integration - InstinctAntTask
  • Allow multiple formatters
  • Add XML file reporting in JUnit task format.
• Ant integration - InstinctReportAntTask
  • Create HTML specification reports from XML results

Release 0.2.1

• IntelliJ Plugin
  • Inspections/intentions
    • Add generators for contexts & lifecycle methods.
    • Lookup based on subject annotation/naming convention.
    • Add intention/inspection for areas where the expectations could be improved. eg. expect.that(container.size()).equalTo(3) => expect.that(container).isOfSize(3)
    • Hook into "Create field ..." intention to annotate fields as dummies, mocks, etc.
    • Allow loosening/tightening of mock constraints, one(foo).bar(bar) => one(foo).bar(with(eq(bar))), tab between constraints (with list of eq(), same(), etc. Also work on returnValue, throwsException, etc.
  • Runer
    • Fix current intermittent errors when running specs.
    • Hook into JUnit runner for GUI.
  • Release on IDEA plugins site.
  • Add a view of pending specifications

Previous Releases

Release 0.1.9

• ~~Maven integration~~
  • ~~Initial Maven artefacts available on main repo.~~
• ~~JUnit Integration~~
  • ~~JUnit XML test output formatters, for integration of JUnit style XSL stylesheets.~~
• ~~Prototype Scala API~~

Release 0.1.7

• Core Features
  • ~~Marking of double fields based on naming convention.~~
  • ~~Auto-create arrays of test doubles.~~
• Expectation API
  • ~~Add isEmpty() and isNotEmpty() to iterable checker.~~
• JUnit integration
  • ~~Shipping with junit-dep-4.4.jar to avoid bundled Hamcrest.~~
• Bugs
  • ~~(defect-33) CollectionChecker.hasTheSameContentAs() is broken~~

Release 0.1.6

• Core Features
  • ~~Remove the need for @Context annotation.~~
  • ~~Automatic creation of specification doubles: mocks, stubs and dummies~~.
  • ~~Automatic reset and verification of mocks.~~
  • ~~@BeforeSpecification, @AfterSpecification, @Specifications (and naming convention equivalents) can be used across base and subclasses.~~
  • ~~Better error messages for hasBeanProperty and hasBeanPropertyWithValue.~~
• Expectation API
  • ~~Make expectations more like natural language. eg. isEqualTo(), doesNotEqual(), etc. Existing code using equalTo(), etc. will need to be updated.~~
  • ~~Collection checkers: hasTheSameContentAs(Collection~~

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) and hasTheSameContentAs(E...). These only check content and not the order of elements.~~*~~Ensure all "collection" classes (Array, Map, Set, List, String, SharSequence) have similar size checkers available.~~*~~Added file checker,~~* JUnit integration ~~ Fix Eclipse unrooted context.~~ Ant integration ~~Support for custom classpath.~~~~Quiet specification result formatting (only shows errors and pending specs).~~*~~Use correct project logging level for errors, etc.~~* jMock integration ~~Support states: Mockery.states(String).~~ Infrastructure ~~Removed reliance on Boost, transferred all relevant Boost classes locally.~~~~jMock 2.4.~~*~~Downgraded to CGLib 2.1.3 (for Maven integration).~~* Bugs ~~Miscellaneous NullPointerExceptions and null related problems in state expectation API.~~~~(defect-3) IterableChecker should have a containsOnly method or something.~~*~~(defect-8) @BeforeSpecification does not run if implemented in an abstract base class.~~*~~(defect-20) CEclipse Junit4 InstinctRunner shows tests under the "Unrooted Tests" node. ~~*~~(defect-22) Context treeview shows baseclass and subclass when only subclass is run~~*~~(defect-23) Overridden specifications run twice.

Release 0.1.5

• Core Features
  • ~~Initial cut of pending specifications~~
• Expectation API
  • ~~Behaviour expectation API.~~
  • ~~Move old mocking code to jMock 2, remove jMock 1.2 dependency.~~
  • ~~Add regular expression checking to string checker.~~
  • ~~Add empty checks to array checker.~~
  • ~~Expected exception (simple version, encoded in specification annotation)~~
• JUnit Integration
  • ~~Fix concurrent modification error in JUnit 3 code.~~
  • ~~JUnit 4 runner.~~
• QuickCheck Properties (ala Popper Theories)
  • ~~Initial prototype API~~
• Bugs
  • ~~Remove state-based expectation API null checks.~~
  • ~~Clean up generic warnings.~~