Giordano Scalzo's Personal Blog » infinitest http://giordano.scalzo.biz Just another useless weblog Fri, 09 Jul 2010 09:41:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Infinitest: an autotest for Eclipse http://giordano.scalzo.biz/2009/09/09/infinitest-an-autotest-for-eclipse/ http://giordano.scalzo.biz/2009/09/09/infinitest-an-autotest-for-eclipse/#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:00:07 +0000 giordano scalzo http://giordano.scalzo.biz/?p=70 In my experimental trips in Ruby world, other than the elegance of the language, the Bdd as default and the lot of new exciting things created by the community, a thing I liked a lot was autotest , a little gem that launches our testsuite when we change a source file.
It could seem a silly utility, but I can assure it’s a really time saver and can take us in a high productive mental flow: I really missed it in Java world.

Of course, I’ve heard about Junit Max, the Kent Beck’s attempt to create a product, but my laziness delayed me to try it, until Kent got bored and dismiss the project :-( .

Today while reading distractedly the Twitterverse, I bumped into Infinitest, that seems exactly what I was looking for.
Infinitest isn’t open source, but for personal use it should be possible get a free of charge individual license.

The installation is straightforward as usual, just add http://update.improvingworks.com to Eclipse’s software updates, and we are ready to start!

Infinitest stay in the right bottom of Eclipse, waiting far some changes:

waiting for changes

When we save some file Infinitest starts and show the results of all test it founds in the project:

red test

A nice feature is the yellow bar when there is some error in the workspace and tests can’t run:

yellow bar

That’s all!
I have to try it more, but it seems very promising and useful.

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