Code Kills

A couple of days ago, I complained about FlexUnit's Theories. Well, with a bit of encouragement from @drewbourne, I broke down and wrote a proper parameterized testrunner:

    [RunWith("utils.testrunners.ParameterizedRunner")]
    class AdditionTests {
        public static var numbersToTest:Array = [
            [1, 2, 3],
            [4, 5, 9],
            [-1, 1, 0]
        };

        [Parameterized("numbersToTest")]
        public function testAddition(a:int, b:int, expected:int):void {
            assertEqual(a+b, expected);
        }
    }

And that code will do exactly what you'd expect: run three test cases, one for each of the inputs. If one test fails, the others will still run. Helpful error messages will be provided when a test fails.

The source can be downloaded from: http://gist.github.com/299871 (and it will be getting a new home when ever I get around to releasing all of my AS utilities)

Look useful? Give it a try and tell me what you think – I'd love to know.

Update

Since this article was written, parameterized tests have been added to FlexUnit core. The documentation is over on the FlexUnit wiki: http://docs.flexunit.org/index.php?title=Parameterized_Test_Styles

And this is the above test, using the FlexUnit syntax:

 
    [RunWith("org.flexunit.runners.Parameterized")]
    public class AdditionTests {        

        public static var numbersToTest:Array = [
            [1, 2, 3],
            [4, 5, 9],
            [-1, 1, 0]
        };


        [Test(dataProvider="numbersToTest")]
        public function testAddition(a:int, b:int, expected:int):void {
            assertEqual(a+b, expected);
        }
    }