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3.0.8 - 2014-12-12 #version-3-0-8

It's a release that support Ruby 2.2.0 preview2.

Improvements

• Added a link for YARD in README. [GitHub:test-unit.github.io#2][Reported by sunnyone]
• Added description about "/PATTERN/" style value in auto runner usage. [GitHub#86][Suggested by sunnyone]
• Supported Ruby 2.2.0 preview2 in assert_throw and assert_nothing_thrown.

Fixes

• Fixed a bug that error report is failed when source encoding and locale encoding are different. [GitHub#87][Reported by scivola]

Thanks

• sunnyone
• scivola

3.0.7 - 2014-11-14 #version-3-0-7

It's a minor update release.

Fixes

• Fixed a bug that teardown blocks aren't called with sub class to parent class order. [GitHub#85][Reported by TOMITA Masahiro]

Thanks

• TOMITA Masahiro

3.0.6 - 2014-11-09 #version-3-0-6

It's a minor update release.

Improvements

• Improved code snippet location. [GitHub#84][Patch by Yuki Kurihara]

Thanks

• Yuki Kurihara

3.0.5 - 2014-11-08 #version-3-0-5

It's a minor update release.

Fixes

• Fixed a bug that startup/shutdown of parent test case isn't called when the test case includes one or more modules. [GitHub#83][Reported by Chadderton Odwazny]

Thanks

• Chadderton Odwazny

3.0.4 - 2014-11-01 #version-3-0-4

It's a minor update release.

Improvements

• Stopped to remove JRuby and Rubinius internal backtrace entries from backtrace on failure/error. [GitHub#82][Patch by Charles Oliver Nutter]

Thanks

• Charles Oliver Nutter

3.0.3 - 2014-10-29 #version-3-0-3

It's a minor update release.

Improvements

• Improved Test::Unit::TestCase.test performance. 100 times faster.
• Supported Proc for user message. [Sugested by Nobuyoshi Nakada]

Fixes

• Fixed markup in document. [GitHub#81][Patch by Masafumi Yokoyama]

Thanks

• Masafumi Yokoyama
• Nobuyoshi Nakada

3.0.2 - 2014-10-15 #version-3-0-2

It's a minor update release.

Improvements

• Supported broken == implementation. == implementation should be fixed but it's not work of test-unit. :< [GitHub#71][Reported by Emily]
• [UI][console]: Accepted no message failure. [GitHub#66][Reported by Brian Tatnall]
• Updated gem description. [GitHub#74][Patch by Vít Ondruch]
• Updated GPL text. [GitHub#78][Patch by Vít Ondruch]

Fixes

• Removed needless executable bit from README file. [GitHub#79][Patch by Vít Ondruch]

Thanks

• Emily
• Brian Tatnall
• Vít Ondruch

3.0.1 - 2014-08-05 #version-3-0-1

It's a minor update release.

Improvements

• Improved Ruby 1.8.7 support. Note that we don't support Ruby 1.8.7 actively. We just support if its support is painless. [GitHub#71][Patch by estolfo]

Thanks

• estolfo

3.0.0 - 2014-08-03 #version-3-0-0

It's Power Assert supported release!

Improvements

• Improved Rubinius support. [Ryo Onodera]
• Updated RR repository link. [GitHub#56][Patch by Kenichi Kamiya]
• Added some minitest compatible assertions. We don't recommend using these assertions. They are just for migrating from minitest. [GitHub#57][Patch by Karol Bucek]
  • Test::Unit::Assertions#refute
  • Test::Unit::Assertions#refute_predicate
  • Test::Unit::Assertions#refute_empty
  • Test::Unit::Assertions#assert_not_includes
  • Test::Unit::Assertions#refute_includes
  • Test::Unit::Assertions#assert_not_instance_of
  • Test::Unit::Assertions#refute_instance_of
  • Test::Unit::Assertions#assert_not_kind_of
  • Test::Unit::Assertions#refute_kind_of
  • Test::Unit::Assertions#assert_not_operator
  • Test::Unit::Assertions#refute_operator
• Improved code readability. [Suggested by Kenichi Kamiya]
• Made license field in RubyGems parseable. [GitHub#60][Patch by Michael Grosser]
• Improved test case match feature by --testcase and --ignore-testcase options. They also checks parent class names.
• Made inspected representation of Numeric objects especially BigDecimal more readable. [GitHub#64][Reported by Byron Appelt]
• Added badges for Traivs CI and RubyGems. [GitHub#65][Patch by Byron Appelt]
• Supported Power Assert. You can use Power Assert with Test::Unit::Assertions#assert with block. See method document for details. We recommend using Power Assert for predicate method checks. For example, we recommend Power Assert rather than Test::Unit::Assertions#assert_true, Test::Unit::Assertions#assert_predicate and so on. We don't recommend using Power Assert for equality check assertion. Test::Unit::Assertions#assert_equal should be used for the case. [Kazuki Tsujimoto]

Fixes

• Fixed a bug that test case defined by block has wrong location. [GitHub#58][Patch by Narihiro Nakamura]
• Fixed a bug that test methods defined in included modules in super-class are also collected. [GitHub#62][GitHub#63][Patch by Karol Bucek]

Thanks

• Ryo Onodera
• Kenichi Kamiya
• Karol Bucek
• Narihiro Nakamura
• Michael Grosser
• Byron Appelt
• Kazuki Tsujimoto

2.5.5 - 2013-05-18 #version-2-5-5

It's Ruby 2.0.0 supported release!

Improvements

• Supported Ruby 2.0.0. [GitHub#54] [Reported by mtasaka]
• Accepted screen-256color TERM as 256 colors available environment. [GitHub#55] [Reported by Tom Miller]

Fixes

• Fixed a typo in document. [GitHub#53] [Patch by Baptiste Fontaine]
• Fixed a bug in Test::Unit::Assertions#assert_in_epsilon. It doesn't work as expected if expected value is negative value. [Ruby Bug #8317] [Reported by Nobuhiro IMAI]

Thanks

• Baptiste Fontaine
• mtasaka
• Tom Miller
• Nobuhiro IMAI

2.5.4 - 2013-01-23 #version-2-5-4

It's a bug fix release.

Improvements

• Added documents for data driven test functionality.
• Added TSV support for data driven test functionality.
• Support tag inspection on JRuby.

Fixes

• Fixed a bug. It is too slow to filter tests when there are many tests. [GitHub#46]
• Accept anonymous test suite. [GitHub:#49] [Reported by Matthew Rudy Jacobs]

Thanks

• Matthew Rudy Jacobs

2.5.3 - 2012-11-28 #version-2-5-3

It's a release for minitest compatibility and bug fix.

Improvements

• Supported diff in invalid encoding.
• Added some assersion methods just for minitest compatibility. Added methods are assert_includes(), refute_*() and refute(). If you are test-unit user, please don't use them. [GitHub#40] [Suggested by Michael Grosser]
• Added --attribute option to select target tests by attribute. [test-unit-users-en:00098] [Suggested by Piotr Nestorow]

Fixes

• Allowed use of test for inheritance in ActionController::TestCase. [GitHub#42] [Patch by David Rasch]
• Ensured evaluating at_exist block in top level. In IRB context, exit() specifies irb_exit(). [test-unit-users-en:00089] [Reported by Daniel Berger]
• Fixed a bug that decoration style description is ignored. "decoration style description" are using description method above "def test_name" or with Symbol specifying test_name. [GitHub#45] [Reported by Piotr Nestorow]

Thanks

• Michael Grosser
• David Rasch
• Daniel Berger
• Piotr Nestorow

2.5.2 - 2012-08-29 #version-2-5-2

It's an improvement release for tmtms. --location is a similar feature to --line_number in RSpec. sub_test_case is a similar feature to context in shoulda-context and RSpec.

Improvements

• Cleaned up tests. [GitHub#34] [Patch by Michael Grosser]
• Added missing background color for 8 color environment.
• Added workaround for NetBeans. [GitHub#38] [Reported by Marc Cooper]
• Added --location command line option that selects target tests by test defined location.
• Created sub test suite for each subclassed test case.
• [ui][console] Supported nested test suites.
• Added Test::Unit.at_start and Test::Unit.at_exit hooks that are run before/after all tests are run. [Good hook name is suggested by kdmsnr]
• Improved code snippet target on failure. Test method is always used for code snippet target. [GitHub#39] [Suggested by Michael Grosser]
• Added Test::Unit::TestCase.sub_test_case that creates sub test case. The sub test case name isn't limited Ruby's constant name rule. You can specify the sub test case name in free form.

Thanks

• Michael Grosser
• Marc Cooper
• kdmsnr

2.5.1 - 2012-07-05 #version-2-5-1

It's a bug fix release.

Improvements

• Supported installing from GitHub. [GitHub#29] [Suggested by Michael Grosser]
• Supported ActiveSupport::TestCase. [GitHub#30] [Reported by Michael Grosser]
• [ui][console] Improved multiline falut message display.

Fixes

• [ui][console] Fixed a bug that expected and actual values are empty. [GitHub#31][GitHub#33] [Reported by Kendall Buchanan][Reported by Mathieu Martin] [Hinted by Michael Grosser]
• Fixed a bug that .gemspec can't be loaded on LANG=C. [RubyForge#29595] [Reported by Jean-Denis Koeck]

Thanks

• Michael Grosser
• Kendall Buchanan
• Mathieu Martin
• Jean-Denis Koeck

2.5.0 - 2012-06-06 #version-2-5-0

It's a bug fix release.

Fixes

• Fixed a backward incompatibility of TestUnitMediator#run_suite introduced in 2.4.9. [GitHub#28] [Reported by Vladislav Rassokhin]

Thanks

• Vladislav Rassokhin

2.4.9 - 2012-06-03 #version-2-4-9

It's a bug fix release.

Improvements

• Test::Unit.run? -> Test::Unit::AutoRunner.need_auto_run?. Test::Unit.run? is marked as deprecated but it is still available.
• [experimental] Added top level "run" method for "ruby -rtest-unit -e run test/test_*.rb". Is this API OK or dirty?
• Made failure output more readable on no color mode.
• Supported showing ASCII-8BIT diff in failure message.
• [ui][console] Supported ENV["TERM"] == "xterm-256color" as color available terminal. [GitHub#26] [Reported by Michael Grosser]
• [ui][console] Supported "-256color" suffix ENV["TERM"] terminal as 256 color supported terminal.

Fixes

• Fixed a bug that --workdir doesn't work.
• Consumed processed command line parameters in ARGV as --help says. [RubyForge#29554] [Reported by Bob Saveland]
• Added missing require "test/unit/diff". [GitHub#25] [Reported by Stephan Kulow]

Thanks

• Bob Saveland
• Stephan Kulow
• Michael Grosser

2.4.8 - 2012-3-6 #version-2-4-8

It's a bug fix release.

Improvements

• Delayed at_exit registration until Test::Unit is used. [GitHub:#21] [Reported by Jason Lunn]
• Added workaround for test-spec. [GitHub:#22] [Reported by Cédric Boutillier]

Fixes

• Fixed an error on code snippet display on JRuby. [GitHub:#19][GitHub:#20] [Reported by Jørgen P. Tjernø][Patch by Junegunn Choi]

Thanks

• Jørgen P. Tjernø
• Junegunn Choi
• Jason Lunn

2.4.7 - 2012-2-10 #version-2-4-7

It's a code snippet improvement release.

Improvements

• Supported code snippet display on all faults.

2.4.6 - 2012-2-9 #version-2-4-6

It's a TAP runner separated release.

Improvements

• Moved TAP runner to test-unit-runner-tap gem from test-unit gem.
• Supported code snippet display on failure.

2.4.5 - 2012-1-16 #version-2-4-5

It's a failure message readability improvement release.

Improvements

• Removed needless information from exception inspected text on failure. It's for easy to read.
• Supported custom inspector.

2.4.4 - 2012-1-2 #version-2-4-4

It's a Rails integration improved release.

Improvements

• [ui][console] Don't break progress display when a test is failed.
• [ui][console] Added markers betwen a failure detail message in progress to improve visibility.
• [travis] Dropped Ruby 1.8.6 as a test target. [GitHub:#13] [Patch by Josh Kalderimis]
• Supported expected value == 0 case in assert_in_epsilon. [RubyForge#29485] [Reported by Syver Enstad]
• Supported a block style setup/teardown/cleanup.

Thanks

• Josh Kalderimis
• Syver Enstad

2.4.3 - 2011-12-11 #version-2-4-3

Improvements

• Improved SimpleCov integration by stopping to modify ARGV in auto runner. [GitHub:#12] [Reported by Nikos Dimitrakopoulos]
• Improved JRuby integration by removing JRuby internal backtrace.

Thanks

• Nikos Dimitrakopoulos

2.4.2 - 2011-11-26 #version-2-4-2

Improvements

• --name supported data label.

2.4.1 - 2011-11-09

Improvements

• Accepted AssertionMessage as assertion's user message. It is used in assert_select in actionpack. [Reported by David Heath]

Fixes

• Fixed test failure on LANG=C. #11 [Reported by boutil]
• Suppress warnings on Ruby 1.9.2.

Thanks

• boutil
• David Heath

2.4.0 - 2011-09-18

Improvements

• Supported Travis CI. #5 [Suggested by James Mead]
• Added Gemfile. #6 [Suggested by James Mead]
• [ui][console] Supported notification in show-detail-immediately.
• [ui][console] enable --show-detail-immediately by default.
• [ui] Added --max-diff-target-string-size option.
• [ui][console] Supported 256 colors.

Fixes

• Added missing fixture file. #7 [Reported by grafi-tt]
• [ui][console] Added missing the last newline for progress level.
• Supported correct backtrace for redefined notification.
• Don't handle Timeout::Error as pass through exception on Ruby 1.8. #8 [Reported by Marc Seeger (Acquia)]

Thanks

• James Mead
• grafi-tt
• Marc Seeger (Acquia)

2.3.2 - 2011-08-15

A bug fix release.

Improvements

• [ui][console] Added some newlines to improve readability.

Fixes

• [ui][console] Worked --verbose again.
• Re-supported Ruby 1.8.6. [Reported by James Mead]

Thanks

• James Mead

2.3.1 - 2011-08-06 #version-2-3-1

Output improvement release!

Improvements

• [ui][console] Outputs omissions and notifications in short.
• [ui][console] Added "important-only" verbose level.
• Intelligence diff supports recursive references.
• [rubyforge #29325] Supported Ruby Enterprise Edition. [Reported by Hans de Graaff]
• [rubyforge #29326] Supported JRuby. [Reported by Hans de Graaff]
• Added --show-detail-immediately option that shows fault details when a fault is occurred.

Fixes

• [pull request #1] Fixed a problem that load collector can't load a test file on Ruby 1.9. [Patch by grafi-tt]
• [issue #3] Fixed a problem that implicit method name override by declarative style test definition. [Reported by Jeremy Stephens]

Thanks

• grafi-tt
• Jeremy Stephens
• Hans de Graaff

2.3.0 / 2011-04-17

• 13 enhancements

  • improve Hash key sorting for diff.
  • [#28928] support any characters in declarative style description. [Daniel Berger]
  • add Error#location and make #backtrace deprecated.
  • make TestCase#passed? public.
  • add result finished and pass assertion notifications.
  • add TestSuite#passed? public.
  • add XML test runner.
  • add --output-file-descriptor option.
  • measure elapsed time for each test.
  • add --collector option.
  • support test driven test. [Haruka Yoshihara]
  • add cleanup hook it runs between after test and before teardown.
  • support recursive collection sort for diff.

• Thanks

  • Daniel Berger
  • Haruka Yoshihara

2.2.0 / 2011-02-14

• 22 enhancements

  • [#28808] accept String as delta for assert_in_delta. [Daniel Berger]
  • [test-unit-users-en:00035] make GC-able finished tests. [Daniel Berger]
  • use also COLUMNS environment variable to guess terminal width.
  • make delta for assert_in_delta optional. [Nobuyoshi Nakada]
  • add assert_not_respond_to. [Nobuyoshi Nakada]
  • add assert_not_match. assert_no_match is deprecated. [Nobuyoshi Nakada]
  • add assert_not_in_delta. [Nobuyoshi Nakada]
  • add assert_in_epsilon. [Nobuyoshi Nakada]
  • add assert_not_in_epsilon. [Nobuyoshi Nakada]
  • add assert_include. [Nobuyoshi Nakada]
  • add assert_not_include. [Nobuyoshi Nakada]
  • add assert_empty. [Nobuyoshi Nakada]
  • add assert_not_empty. [Nobuyoshi Nakada]
  • notify require failed paths.
  • validate message value for assert.
  • show throughputs at the last.
  • support not ASCII compatible string diff.
  • support colorized diff on encoding different string.
  • normalize entry order of Hash for readable diff.
  • add --ignore-name option.
  • add --ignore-testcase option.
  • add assert_not_send.

• Thanks

  • Daniel Berger
  • Nobuyoshi Nakada

2.1.2 / 2010-11-25

• 1 enhancement
  • support auto runner prepare hook.

2.1.1 / 2010-07-29

• 1 bug fix

  • [test-unit-users-en:00026] re-work tap runner. [Daniel Berger]

• Thanks

  • Daniel Berger

=== 2.1.0 / 2010-07-17

• 1 bug fix

  • [#28267] global config file ignored [Daniel Berger]

• Thanks

  • Daniel Berger

2.0.8 / 2010-06-02

• 5 major enchancements

  • collect *_test.rb and *-test.rb files as test files.
  • [#28181] improve assert_in_delta message. [Suggested by David MARCHALAND]
  • show string encoding in assert_equal failure message if they are different.
  • change default color scheme:
    • success: green back + white
    • failure: red back + white
  • add capture_output.

• 2 bug fixes

  • fix a bug that console runner on verbose mode causes an error for long test name (>= 61).
  • [#28093] Autorunner ignores all files in a directory named test by default [Reported by Florian Frank]

• Thanks

  • Florian Frank
  • David MARCHALAND

2.0.7 / 2010-03-09

• 4 major enhancements

  • detect redefined test methods.
  • [INTERFACE IMCOMPATIBLE] multiple --name and --testcase options narrow down targets instead of adding targets.
  • [#27764] accept custom test_order for each test case. [Suggested by David MARCHALAND]
  • [#27790] ignore omitted tests from 'n% passed' report. [Suggested by Daniel Berger]

• 2 minor enchancements

  • [#27832] ignore .git directory. [Suggested by Daniel Berger]
  • [#27792] require 'fileutils' and 'tmpdir' lazily for non-priority mode users. [Suggested by David MARCHALAND]

• 2 bug fixes

  • [#27892] modify processed arguments array destructively. [Reported by Bob Saveland]
  • work without HOME environment variable. [Reported by Champak Ch]

• Thanks

  • David MARCHALAND
  • Daniel Berger
  • Bob Saveland
  • Champak Ch

2.0.6 / 2010-01-09

• 3 major enhancements

  • [#27380] Declarative syntax? [Daniel Berger] support declarative syntax:

    test "test description in natural language" do ... end

  • support test description: description "test description in natural language" def test_my_test ... end

  • make max diff target string size customizable by TEST_UNIT_MAX_DIFF_TARGET_STRING_SIZE environment variable.

• 2 bug fixes

  • [#27374] omit_if unexpected behavior [David MARCHALAND]
  • fix a bug that tests in sub directories aren't load with --basedir. [Daniel Berger]

• Thanks

  • David MARCHALAND
  • Daniel Berger

2.0.5 / 2009-10-18

• 1 bug fixes

  • [#27314] fix diff may raise an exception. [Erik Hollensbe]

• Thanks

  • Erik Hollensbe

2.0.4 / 2009-10-17

• 4 major enhancements

  • use ~/.test-unit.yml as global configuration file.
  • add TAP runner. (--runner tap)
  • support colorized diff: http://test-unit.github.io/color-diff.png
  • add Test::Unit::AutoRunner.default_runner= to specify default test runner.

• 4 minor enhancements

  • improve verbose mode output format. (use indent)
  • support NOT_PASS_THROUGH_EXCEPTIONS.
  • support arguments option in #{runner}_options.
  • TC_ -> Test in sample test case name.

• 1 bug fixes

  • [#27195] test-unit-2.0.3 + ruby-1.9.1 cannot properly test DelegateClass subclasses [Mike Pomraning]

• Thanks

  • Mike Pomraning

2.0.3 / 2009-07-19

• 6 major enhancements

  • add assert_predicate.
  • add assert_not_predicate.
  • [#24210] assert_kind_of supports an array of classes or modules. [Daniel Berger]
  • assert_instance_of supports an array of classes or modules.
  • add --default-priority option.
  • [#26627] add --order option. [Daniel Berger]

• 4 minor enhancements

  • use yellow foreground + black background for error.
  • don't show diff for long string.
  • accept "*term-color" TERM environment as colorizable terminal. (e.g. Apple's Terminal)
  • [#26268] add a workaround for test-spec's after_all. [Angelo Lakra]

• 1 bug fix

  • [#23586] re-support ruby 1.9.1. [Diego Pettenò]

• Thanks

  • Diego Pettenò
  • Daniel Berger
  • Angelo Lakra

2.0.2 / 2008-12-21

• 2 major enhancements

  • re-support ruby 1.8.5.
  • improve exception object comparison.

• 3 bug fixes

  • [#22723]: collector fails on anonymous classes
  • [#22986]: Test names with '?' blow up on Windows
  • [#22988]: don't create .test-result on non-priority mode.

• Thanks

  • Erik Hollensbe
  • Daniel Berger
  • Bill Lear

2.0.1 / 2008-11-09

• 19 major enhancements

  • support ruby 1.9.1.
  • add run_test method to be extensible.
  • improve priority-mode auto off.
  • improve startup/shutdown RDoc. [Daniel Berger]
  • add assert_compare. [#20851] [Designing Patterns]
  • add assert_fail_assertion. [#20851] [Designing Patterns]
  • add assert_raise_message. [#20851] [Designing Patterns]
  • support folded diff.
  • add assert_raise_kind_of. [Daniel Berger]
  • ingore inherited test for nested test case.
  • add assert_const_defined.
  • add assert_not_const_defined.
  • support assert_raise with an exception object.
  • support assert_raise with no arguments that asserts any exception is raised. [#22602] [Daniel Berger]
  • support folded dot progress.
  • add --progress-row-max option.
  • support color scheme customize.
  • support configuration file. (YAML)
  • recognize test-XXX.rb files as test files not only test_XXX.rb

• Thanks

  • Daniel Berger
  • Designing Patterns

2.0.0 / 2008-06-18

• 15 major enhancements

  • support startup/shutdown. (test case level setup/teardown)
  • support multiple setup/teardown.
  • support pending.
  • support omission.
  • support notification.
  • support colorize.
  • support diff.
  • support test attribute.
  • add assert_boolean.
  • add assert_true.
  • add assert_false.
  • add --priority-mode option.
  • don't use ObjectSpace to collect test cases.
  • make more customizable. (additional options, exception handling and so on)
  • improve Emacs integration.

• 4 major changes

  • remove GTK+1 support.
  • split GTK+ runner as another gem.
  • split FOX runner as another gem.
  • split Tk runner as another gem.

1.2.3 / 2008-02-25

• 1 major enhancement

  • Birthday (as a gem)!