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Much work and dedication has gone by these past few months in order to bring you the final release of TestBox v1.0.0.  For those of you that do not know what TestBox is, TestBox is a next generation testing framework for ColdFusion that is based on BDD (Behavior Driven Development) for providing a clean obvious syntax for writing tests. It contains not only a testing framework,...

We are so tremendously happy to finally bring you the final version of: TestBox 1.0.0.  We have been working tremendously hard to get this release out before the holidays, so please enjoy it.  We have also introduced two new ref cards for TestBox, which are available now as well.  For those of you who do not know about Tes...

We are proud to announce MockBox 2.2.0. This version of MockBox includes some important fixes for your mocking adventures. You can read our What's new with MockBox 2.2 to get a better idea of this release.

We are so excited to bring you our 1.0.0 Release Candidate of TestBox.  Much work and dedication has gone through this release and a final release is imminent.  For those of you that do not know what TestBox is, TestBox is a next generation testing framework for ColdFusion that is based on BDD (Behavior Driven Development) for providing ...

We are so stoked to bring you the Release Candidate version of: TestBox.  TestBox is a next generation testing framework for ColdFusion that is based on BDD (Behavior Driven Development) for providing a clean obvious syntax for writing tests. It contains not only a testing framework, runner, assertions and expectations library but also integrates with MockBox for mocking and stubbing. It also supports xUnit style of testing and MXUnit compatibilities.  TestBox can be downloaded from our main downloads page and it has been also integrated into our "development" branch for the ColdBox platform as well.  The following are the release notes for this release candidate:

If you haven't heard, the latest addition to the *Box family is TestBox and is currently out in Alpha. It allows for the standard xUnit style of testing that you may already be familiar with in tools like MXUnit. TestBox also allows for a newer style of testing known as Behavior-Driven Development or BDD. BDD helps focus on writing tests that confirm specific business needs are met by your software and typically use some sort of human-readable DSL that allows the test to be self-documenting a...

We are so pleased to bring you another addition to our Ortus product lineup: TestBox.  TestBox is a next generation testing framework for ColdFusion that is based on BDD (Behavior Driven Development) for providing a clean obvious syntax for writing tests. It contains not only a testing fr...

We are so pleased to bring you another addition to our Box collection of products: TestBox.  TestBox is a next generation testing framework for ColdFusion that is based on BDD (Behavior Driven Development) for providing a clean obvious syntax for writing tests. It contains not only a testing framework, runner, assertions and expectations library but also integrates with MockBox for mocking and stubbing. It also supports xUnit style of testing and MXUnit compatibilities.  At this point TestBox has been released as a 1.0.0 Alpha and can be downloaded from our main downloads page and it has been also integrated into our "development" branch for the ColdBox platform as well.  As you will see, TestBox also leverages Closures extensively to provide nice clear syntaxes in your tests.

Features At A Glance

• Here are a simple listing of features TestBox brings to the table:
• BDD style testing
• xUnit style testing
• Testing life-cycle methods
• MockBox integration for mocking and stubbing
• Ability to extend and create custom test runners
• Ability to extend and create custom test reporters
• Extensible reporters, bundled with tons of them:
•     JSON
•     XML
•     JUnit 4 XML
•     Text (80's style)
•     Console
•     TAP (Test Anything Protocol)
•     Simple HTML
•     Min - Minimalistic Heaven
•     Raw
• Asynchronous testing
• Multi-suite capabilities
• Test skipping
• Suite skipping
• Dynamic skipping support via runtime executions
• Test one or more suites exclusively
• Test one or more tests/specs exclusively
• Test labels and tagging
• Clickable suite titles to filter test execution
• Direct MXUnit replacement
• Much more!

We are very excited to announce our second online course available for both ColdBox and ContenBox Modular CMS thanks to our annual conference CBDW2013: http://www.udemy.com/coldbox-platform-developer-week-2013/.  

It has been a busy past few months here at Ortus Solutions and we have some cool new stuff to share with the world today.  We have updates for all our major open source libraries this week. Some are minor releases and some are cool enhancement releases thanks to everybody's feedback and contributions.  You can find much more about the releases in our ColdBox engineering blog or in our online documentation wiki:

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