From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2007-11-15T09:45:55+09:00
Subject: Re: test/unit and miniunit


On Nov 14, 2007, at 15:42 , Ryan Davis wrote:

> When is the 1.9 freeze?
>
> I'd like to export test/unit as a rubygem and replace it with  
> miniunit.
>
> miniunit is:
>
> + 100% compatible with existing tests (including tests to verify).
> + less than 10% of the code (3571 loc vs 304).
> + documents all the method it uses so it is ideal for language  
> implementors.
> - 0% compatible with all the other bells and whistles of test/unit  
> (runners)
> + meaning: it is console only.
> + However, being incredibly small makes it a LOT easier to hook into.
>  + it has already been hooked into via Phil's augment project.

I should add, and since it is 10% of the code, it turns out to be  
7-12x faster than test/unit... 12x faster when there are failures,  
only 7x when everything passes. This was done against 10k tests with  
25% failures 0% errors for the 12x case and 10k tests w/ 0/0 for the  
7x case.