Pat Santora (patweb99)

Last week I was looking over blogs and ran across a blog by Sean Corfield talking about a unit testing framework named MXUnit. Well curiosity caught me and I dove right in to see what it could do. As expected I found a good unit testing framework that could easily take the place of many others out there, which was a relief. I say this only because I currently use cfcUnit, which is also a good framework, but it has not been updated for quite some time, and if you are like me, it’s nice to work within a framework that is updated periodically. Yes?

Now at that point I only played with it enough to know it was a good one to start using, but what really placed it on my radar was the fact that is came with a great EASY to use eclipse interface. I saw this through one of Charlie Arehart’s great online meetings presented by Bill Shelton (one of the many developers of the framework) and all I can say is check it out. It is WELL worth it!  

Now this is something I usually keep to myself, but it’s important in my book and I would not doubt it being important for other developers out there, but seeing the fact that there are many developers maintaining this framework. To me this is gold! It lets me know that this framework will have more of a chance to be appreciated, maintained and used within the cold fusion community.

 Check out Sean Corfield's blog on cfEasyMock as well if you use mock's in your unit testing environment.