RocketUnit

At the User Group meeting last week we were lucky enough to have Robin Hilliard from Rocketboots come down to give us a presentation. One of the things he mentioned during that presentation was RocketUnit. RocketUnit is a light weight unit testing framework for ColdFusion.

I must admit i’m guilty of not using a unit testing framework even though I can see the benefits of it. However I think RocketUnit might be the easy to use/setup framework that I need to integrate a unit testing framework into my regime.

All you have to do is extract the rocketunit zip file to the webroot of your site and you’re off and running.

Also another tip from Robin. If you don’t use ANT and you want to be notified of problems as they arise, you can add a meta refresh tag to the index.cfm in your tests directory. Especially handy if you are running the tests in your IDE.