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FEST-Assert 1.3: Fluent Interface for Assertions
Posted by Alex Ruiz in Java, Open Source, Testing on August 4, 2010
We are proud to announce that FEST-Assert 1.3 is out! FEST-Assert is an “assertThat” library that provides a fluent interface for writing assertions. Its main goal is to improve test code readability and make maintenance of tests easier. Example: int removed = employees.removeFired(); assertThat(removed).isZero(); List newEmployees = employees.hired(TODAY); assertThat(newEmployees).hasSize(6) .contains(frodo, sam); String[] newHires [...]
FEST-Swing 1.2: Swing GUI Testing Made Easy
Posted by Alex Ruiz in Java, Open Source, Swing, Testing on June 2, 2010
I’m proud to announce the release of FEST-Swing 1.2! FEST-Swing is a Java library that provides a fluent interface for functional Swing GUI testing. This library provides an easy-to-use API that makes creation and maintenance of GUI tests easy. Release notes Bug [FEST-341] – Error in ScreenshotOnFailureListener.takeScreenshotAndReturnFileName. Thanks to Grego. [FEST-342] – Javadocs in methods [...]
FEST’s JavaFX Compiler Maven Plug-in 1.0b1
Posted by Alex Ruiz in JavaFX, Open Source on May 19, 2010
I’m proud to announce the release of FEST’s JavaFX Compiler Maven plug-in 1.0b1! This plug-in compiles JavaFX source and test files. Features Compiles JavaFX source and test files Does not require JavaFX distribution to be in a Maven repository (according to its license, only Oracle can distribute JavaFX) Does not require to list all JavaFX [...]
FEST-Swing 1.2a4: GUI Testing Made Easy
Posted by Alex Ruiz in Java, Open Source, Swing, Testing on January 19, 2010
I’m proud to announce the release of FEST-Swing 1.2a4! FEST-Swing is a Java library that provides a fluent interface for functional Swing GUI testing. This library provides an easy-to-use API that makes creation and maintenance of GUI tests easy. This is the fourth and last alpha release planned for version 1.2. This new release includes [...]
FEST: new JavaFX Maven plugin
Posted by Alex Ruiz in JavaFX, Open Source on December 9, 2009
I’m back to working on FEST-JavaFX, an open source library for functional testing of JavaFX GUIs. To keep consistency with the rest of FEST modules, I decided to use Maven to compile and build the project. I blogged some time ago how to compile JavaFX code with Maven. I wasn’t too happy with it, since [...]
FEST-Reflect 1.2: Fluent Interface for Java Reflection
Posted by Alex Ruiz in Java, Open Source, Testing on November 30, 2009
We are proud to announce that FEST-Reflect 1.2 is out! FEST-Reflect is a Java library that provides a fluent interface that simplifies the usage of Java Reflection and JavaBeans Introspection, resulting in improved readability and type safety. It supports class loading, access to static inner classes constructors, methods and fields, and more! Example: Person person [...]
FEST-Assert 1.2: Fluent Interface for Assertions
Posted by Alex Ruiz in Java, Open Source, Testing on November 2, 2009
We are proud to announce that FEST-Assert 1.2 is out! FEST-Assert is an “assertThat” library that provides a fluent interface for writing assertions. Its main goal is to improve test code readability and make maintenance of tests easier. Example: int removed = employees.removeFired(); assertThat(removed).isZero(); List newEmployees = employees.hired(TODAY); assertThat(newEmployees).hasSize(6) .contains(frodo, sam); String[] newHires [...]
Giving Infinitest and “Continuous Testing” a try…
It has been a week since I started using Infinitest while working on FEST-Assert. I’m very pleased with the results, to the point that I’m getting addicted to it! Infinitest is an interesting tool that brings Continuous Testing to your IDE (Eclipse or IDEA.) From its website: Whenever you make a change, Infinitest runs tests [...]
My name is Alex Ruiz. I'm a programmer with special interest in Java, API design, testing and OOP. I'm the creator of 

