Ideas
Introducing AutoTest for Delphi
1One of the main issues with doing TDD is the fact, that the cycle times between running the unit tests and the development of a feature has to be very short. In fact as short as possible.
In other languages there are always tools like autotest for ruby or infinitest or JUnitMax for Java.
I missed such a tool badly in Delphi, because it makes the development so much faster when the tests are running automatically in the background everytime the code has changed.
So I created autotest4delphi. It uses Growl as notify engine and outputs all relevant command line output of the compiler / test appropriately colored to the console and it’s configured via a simple INI-file.
The tool itself is written in Delphi 2006. I have not ported it yet to Delphi XE but this should not be a big problem.
Feel free to fork an use it.
Delay on onswering the comments
Sorry for not answering all the comments in the last time. I have married on last Saturday, so I was a bit stressed with the preparations.
I hope to answer the remaining comments in the next two or three weeks.
So long
Martin
Sorry, dass ich in der letzten Zeit nicht zum Beantworten der Kommentare gekommen bin. Ich habe letzten Samstag geheiratet und war wegen der Vorbereitungen etwas im Stress.
Ich hoffe, ich schaffe es, innerhalb der nächsten zwei bis drei Wochen, die verbleibenden Kommentare zu beantworten.
Bis dann
Martin
