Improvements over ZenTest

-c not run all tests after a failed test passes
-r use given config file
-p use parallel_tests to run tests
-s use any style you want -> alias autospec2="autotest --style rspec2"
simplified test setup
simplified packaging
less globals
integration tests

Install

Uninstall ZenTest first, or autotest will not be found:
sudo gem uninstall ZenTest
Install:
sudo gem install autotest
Optional: Support for Test::Unit on Rails
sudo gem install autotest-rails-pure
Optional: an ZenTest without Autotest version:
sudo gem install zentest-without-autotest

Usage

go to a project folder with tests/specs/…
run autotest

Options

-f, –fast-start Do not run full tests at start
-p, –parallel Run tests in parallel (experimental) – gem install parallel_tests)
-c, –no-full-after-failed Do not run full tests after failed test passed
-v, –verbose Be verbose. Prints files that autotest doesn’t know how to map to tests
-q, –quiet Be quiet.
-r, –rc CONFIG Path to config file. (Defaults to ~/.autotest or current_dir/.autotest)
-s, –style STYLE Which style to use, e.g. rspec, rspec2
-h, –help Show this.

Tips

you need diff.exe on windows. Try http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages.html

TODO

add documentation for hooks
cleanup bin/autotest Dir hacks
remove globals from unitdiff
add some automatic notifications e.g. autotest -n -> use any notify library found

License

Autotest was extracted from ZenTest and improved by:

ZenTest Authors

(The MIT License)

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