Summary

Unitils is an open source library aimed at making unit and integration testing easy and maintainable.

It is divided into several modules, each of them providing extra support for a certain aspect of your unit and integration tests. If you for example need mocking for your tests, just include unitils-mock as a dependency. If you would also want to load DbUnit data sets, just include unitils-dbunit.

Below you can find a list of the modules and their features. Click on the title to go to the corresponding tutorial and examples.

Features

Reflection assert

  • Equality assertion through reflection
  • Possibility to ignore order of collections and Java default/null values

Mock module - Makes mocking easy and maintainable

  • Simple syntax for defining and asserting invoked behavior
  • Gives you the best possible feedback so you can easily find out why a test is failing
  • Argument matchers, partial mocking, stubbing behavior, dummy objects...

Inject module - Easily inject test artifacts into classes and instances

  • Inject values by type and name
  • Inject into static fields, e.g. singletons, and automatically reset the old value after the test

IO module - Support for performing IO in tests

  • Creating temporary files and directories
  • Loading the contents of files into objects

Database testing - Support for testing with databases and loading of DbUnit data sets

  • Simplify test database connection setup
  • Support for setting up a separate schema/database per developer
  • Transactional testing
  • Easy loading of data sets
  • Multi-schema data sets
  • Expected data set assertions

Automatic test database maintenance - Use DbMaintain to automatically bring your unit test databases up to date before running your tests

  • Automatic maintenance of databases with support for incremental, repeatable and post processing scripts
  • Automatically disable constraints and set sequences to a minimum value
  • Generating an XSD of the database structure for dataset xml files

Hibernate module - Support for Hibernate database testing

  • Hibernate SessionFactory creation and session management
  • Automatically test the mapping of JPA entities / hibernate mapped objects with the database

Spring module - Support for testing when your project uses Spring

  • ApplicationContext configuration and easy injection of spring managed beans into a unit test
  • Support for using a Spring-configured Hibernate SessionFactory in unit tests.

EasyMock module - Helps you set up tests that use EasyMock as a mocking framework

  • Simplify EasyMock mock object creation
  • EasyMock argument matching using reflection equality

News

2011-12-22 - Release of Unitils 3.3

In this release a brand new module was added: io-unitils. This module adds support for creating temporary files or directories and for the loading of a file contents into a field. Take a look at the tutorial for more info.

We've also rolled out a first version of our new site layout.

Check the release notes for more details.

2011-09-29 - Release of Unitils 3.2

It's been a while since our last release, but now we're back. There's a new team, we're completely redoing the website and there are a lot of new features in the pipeline.

This first release contains an update of the mocking and inject module and some minor fixes to the reflection assert.

A 3.3 release is planned for the end of October, a new major release is planned for the beginning of next year.

Check the release notes for more details.