TestBox 4.0.0 is a major release. It has compatibility changes that you should be aware and lots of good features!
The major compatibility issues are the engine support removals:
Lucee 4.5 Support Dropped
Adobe ColdFusion 11 Dropped
It is easy to update, just type update testbox
and you are done!
Sometimes you need to dump something that is in the CFC you are testing or maybe an asynchronous test. The debug()
method is only accessible from your test bundle, so getting to the TestBox output utilities is not easy. We have now implemented the testing utilities into the request
scope as request.testbox
This utility struct provides you with the following methods:
Method | Comment |
| Send output to the console |
| Send output to the TestBox reporter debugger |
| Clear the debugger |
| Send output to the ColdFusion output buffer |
| Same as print() but adding a <br> separator |
This way in your code you can add them for better debugging, especially when testing async code:
request.testbox.console( "I am here" )request.testbox.debug( "why is this not running" )
We have included MockDataCFC as a dependency to TestBox 4. This will allow you to mock not only objects but data as well. You can access the mocking method via the new mockData()
method in all your specs. This feature is a life-saver when mocking APIs or data within your applications.
# Array of objectsvar data = mockData($num = 3,"author" = "name","id" = "uuid");​# An objectvar data = mockData($returnType = "struct","author" = "name","id" = "uuid");
Let's imagine the following object graph:
AuthorHas Many BooksHas Many CategoriesHas KeywordsHas A Publisher
I can then use this mocking DSL to define it:
mockData(fullName = "name",description = "sentence",age = "age",id = "uuid",createdDate = "datetime",isActive = "oneof:true: false",​// one to many complex object definitionsbooks = [{$num = "rand:1: 3","id" = "uuid","title" = "words:1: 5","categories" = {"$num" = "2","id" = "uuid","category" = "words"}}],​// object definitionpublisher = {"id" = "uuid","name" = "sentence"},​// array of valueskeywords = [{"$num" = "rand:1: 10","$type" = "words"}]);
More information here: https://www.forgebox.io/view/mockdatacfc​
[TESTBOX-275] - Exception in beforeTests
/afterTests
not reported in a meaningful way on the ANT Junit Reporter
[TESTBOX-278] - Fix the coverage % in HTML visualizer
[TESTBOX-274] - New testbox output utilities struct: request.testbox
[TESTBOX-276] - MockdataCFC is now a first class module in TestBox
[TESTBOX-277] - New mockData() method in your base specs so you can mock any type of data
[TESTBOX-280] - Add cfconfig.json for controlling output and consistency between testing in diff engines
[TESTBOX-271] - Drop ACF11 Support
[TESTBOX-273] - Drop old mxunit decorator for ORM Transaction Decorator