For this short session, I’m going to be doing a walk-through of the FlexUnit4 turnkey project. FlexUnit 4 is the latest rendition of the FlexUnit project managed by Adobe and has had a new infusion of developers from the Fluint project. FlexUnit 4 has not only brought a new syntax for creating tests, but also offers a level of compatibility in the Flex testing community. Out of the box, FlexUnit 4 can execute FlexUnit1, Fluint, and FlexUnit 4 tests and suites as well as offer integration with hamcrest-as3, for more robust assertions. Additionally, FlexUnit 4 provides an extension layer for which custom runner classes can be written to bring a whole new depth to writing your unit tests. In this session I will show a few custom runners as well.

Drew Bourne has graciously provided me with some cool code to show off at the meeting. I will be showing a very alpha extension to mock-as3 which will add type-safety to this great mocking framework. Additionally, he’s provided me with a PoC runner that can be used to provide testing contexts (ala BDD) to your unit tests. Definitely some cool stuff when it comes to testing that you may be interested in seeing if you’ve ever written tests for Flex.

Come by on Monday, August 3rd @ 7:00 PM at Devry in Millenia to hear more. See you then!