Saturday, April 25, 2009

Fireworks is back, a tool auto run tests in IntelliJ IDEA for you

Back to Java project currently. Kent's JUnitMax makes me miss my Fireworks, so spend some time to fix it on IntelliJ IDEA 8.1. You can find it at here

When I started this project, the laptop I used was not power enough to run tests in background without bothering my development, so I got a running test progress bar popup in Fireworks.
The hardware is faster and better now. The progress bar may bother someone now, I am removing it and making all tests running background, next version will come soon.

I think I can call back my dream: don't make me test. It's about running tests bothers me, and write script or AllTests.java for running all tests bothers me. So I need a tool to help me to run tests and keep eyes on my edited and failures tests. In ruby world, there is one called ZenTest gem is doing similar thing. And JUnitMax is on eclipse.

Another thing is considering:
What's you like when a tool running test in background for you?
1) paralleling all tests with high cpu cost but fast feedback
2) one slow process but wouldn't bother you

TeamCity with IntelliJ ? I just don't have resource. So it's out.


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