What's New With 5.0.0
May 10, 2022
TestBox 5.x series is a major bump in our library. Here are the major areas of improvement and the full release notes.
We have dropped Adobe 2016 support and added support for Adobe 2023 and Lucee 6+
Batch Test Coverage Reporting
Due to memory limitations in CI environments, larger codebases cannot run all tests as a single testbox run command. Instead, specs are run in a methodical folder-by-folder sequence, separating the testbox run out over many requests and thus working around the Out-Of-Memory exceptions.
While this works, it prevents accurate code coverage reporting since only a small portion of the tests are executed during any request. The generated code coverage report only shows a tiny fraction of the coverage - say, 2% - and not the whole picture
TestBox 5 introduces a CoverageReporter component which
Runs on every TestBox code coverage execution
Loads any previous coverage data from a JSON file
Combines the previous coverage data with the current execution's coverage data (file by file and line by line)
When setting url.isBatched=true and executing the batched test runner, the code coverage report will grow with each sequential testbox run command.
MockBox now supports a $spy( method ) method that allows you to spy on methods with all the call log goodness but without removing all the methods. Every other method remains intact, and the actual spied method remains active. We decorate it to track its calls and return data via the $callLog() method.
Example of CUT:
Example Test:
Performance Improvements
We have focused on this release to lazy load everything as much as possible to allow for much better testing performance. Check it out!
Skip it! Skip it -> Good!
You can now use the skip( message ) method to skip any spec or suite a-la-carte instead of as an argument to the function definitions. This lets you programmatically skip certain specs and suites and pass a nice message.
toHaveLength param should be numeric
Element $DEBUGBUFFER is undefined in THIS
Add contributing.md to the repo
full null support automated testing
allows globbing path patterns in test bundles argument
Add CoverageReporter for batching code coverage reports
Ability to spy on existing methods: $spy()
Add development dependencies to box.json
