CFCUnit and Ant

I have recently been using CFCUnit for unit testing my ColdFusion components. I have also been using Ant as a build tool.

A few people have recently blogged about being able to run CFCUnit tests from within Ant. This sounded just great, so I started to look around cfcunit.jar file to get me up and running – unfortunately I couldn’t find a download location so I have created a copy here for you to download from. I understand that this code is not yet officially released, but it is available in the CFCUnit CVS repository. Here is a snapshot of the code and build of the ant-cfcunit.jar available today. You will need to download both to get it working:

Download cfcunit.zip

Download ant-cfcunit.jar

The CFCUnit code returns an XML page back to the Ant task, so ensure that you have cfsetting showdebugoutput=false for the CFCUnit code to prevent an ‘invalid XML’ problem from occurring.

A simple Ant build script to use this would be:

<project default="test" name="MyTest">
 
	<property name="cfcUnitLib" value="d:/data/cfcunit/lib" />
	<property name="hostname" value="127.0.0.1" />
 
	<taskdef
		name="cfcUnit"
		classname="org.cfcunit.ant.CFCUnitTask"
		classpath="${cfcUnitLib}ant-cfcunit.jar" />
 
	<target name="test">
		<cfcUnit
			hostname="${hostname}"
			testcase="com.yourpackage.YourTestComponent"
			verbose="true" 
			haltonfailure="true"
			haltonerror="true"
			showstacktrace="true" />
	</target>
 
</project>

Many thanks for Paul Kenny for developing CFCUnit and John Paul Ashenfelter for the Ant integration!

For more on CFCUnit and Ant intergation see the posts by Sean Corfield and Chris Scott