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Instinct 0.1.8 Release

07.28.2008 · Posted in Java

Instinct 0.1.8 has been released. This is a maintenance release resolving some minor bugs and packaging issues from the 0.1.7 release earlier this week.Instinct is a Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) framework for Java. Inspired by RSpec, Instinct provides flexible annotation of contexts, specifications and actors; automatic creation of test doubles and test subjects; a state and behaviour expectation API; JUnit test runner integration; Ant support and an IntelliJ IDEA plugin.

Downloads are available from the project site: http://instinct.googlecode.com/

Full list of changes:

Core Features
o Custom specification, before specification and after specification
annotations and naming conventions can be provided via the Context
annotation. This can also be used to turn off naming convention-based
detection (using NoNamingConvention).

Infrastructure
o Upgraded to: Functional Java 2.8.

Bugs
o (Issue 36) Abstract classes are being run as a result of specification runner refactoring.
o (Issue 37) Expected exceptions are being printed to console in Ant
runner even though spec passes.
o (Issue 38) Functional java jar is not included in release zip.

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