AntUnit is an Ant library that allows the definition and execution of tests inside an Ant file. AntUnit grew out of the need to validate pre-conditions in a build file, and now provides assertion tags that can be used to execute tests in conjunction with simple Java test classes.
Test suites are often run as part of a build process. And when the build process is orchestrated by Ant, lots of test-related information gets embedded in Ant build files. Ant now has a new Antlib that makes test setup and execution easier. According to the project documentation for AntUnit
1.0 :
Initially, all tests for Ant tasks were written as individual JUnit test cases. Pretty soon it was clear that most tests needed to perform common tasks like reading a build file, initializing a project instance with it and executing a target. At this point BuildFileTest was invented, a base class for almost all task test cases...
Over time a new pattern evolved, more and more tests only executed a target and didn`t check any effects. Instead that target contained the assertions as a task.
Test suites are often run as part of a build process. And when the build process is orchestrated by Ant, lots of test-related information gets embedded in Ant build files. Ant now has a new Antlib that makes test setup and execution easier. According to the project documentation for AntUnit
1.0 :
Initially, all tests for Ant tasks were written as individual JUnit test cases. Pretty soon it was clear that most tests needed to perform common tasks like reading a build file, initializing a project instance with it and executing a target. At this point BuildFileTest was invented, a base class for almost all task test cases...
Over time a new pattern evolved, more and more tests only executed a target and didn`t check any effects. Instead that target contained the assertions as a task.
