lunit - Unit Testing Framework for Lua 5.2 and above.

• Provides 27 assert functions, and a few misc functions for usage in an easy unit testing framework.
• Comes with a test suite to test itself.
• Licensed under the MIT license.
• Credit goes to the author of the original code: Michael Roth.

Actual state

This is a "manually forked" repo of Michael Roth's lunit and actually contains only one branch (for_lua_5_2_and_above), which is the adaptation of the master branch of the original code for Lua 5.2 (and above).

The main change from Lua 5.1 to 5.2 was that the module() function was removed. So modules are now simple tables. See also "Modules Tutorial". Also see "How to write Lua modules in a post-module() world".

This branch was created with the goal, so that while keeping the original concept, it would be easy to rewrite existing tests, which were created using module() (Lua 5.1).

Self-test

Simply run: > lua selftest.lua

Examples

See sources example*.lua.

For running the examples see comments in the example source files.

Homepage

https://github.com/LeslieGerman/lunit

Source code

GitHub repository:

git clone https://github.com/LeslieGerman/lunit

GitHub repository of the original code:

git clone https://github.com/mrothNET/lunit

History

2018-05-17

• Repo: https://github.com/LeslieGerman/lunit was created.
• Docu corrections.

2018-05-16

• Branch created for Lua 5.2 and above.
• Code and library does not depend on the module() function anymore.
• Some more examples were added.

2018-02-22

• lunit no longer depends on lunit.sh. The script moved to the 'extra' directory.

2009-11-05 / Release 0.5

• New test function assert_error_match().
• lunit shell script returns an error code on failed tests.
• Be more compatible with Darwin / Mac OS X.
• Bug fixes.

2008-01-05 / Release 0.4

• Mostly complete rewrite.
• Lua-5.1 only.

2004-08-22 / Release 0.3 (alpha)

• New function lunit.wrap() to wrap a single function in a complete test case.
• Now a backtrace is printed, if an error or failure occurs in a test case.

2004-08-18 / Release 0.2 (alpha)

• The test suite consists now of approximately 630 assertions.
• Fixed an ugly bug in lunit.assert()! Testcases for lunit.assert() added.
• Now all assert functions return the actual value on success.

2004-08-15 / Release 0.1 (alpha)

• First public release!

Contact

Send email to: [email protected]