Monday, February 18, 2008

MXUnit Eclipse Plugin Updates

I just added a new release of the MXUnit plugin for Eclipse to the update site. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, and you're interested in unit testing for CF, give MXUnit a shot (http://mxunit.org).

For those of you who do know what I'm talking about, the changes are:

  • Biggest change: the plugin now supports authentication. Basic authentication has been tested. NTLM should work, although your mileage may vary. You set the username and password in the MXUnit project properties, not the MXUnit preferences
  • Preference and property pages now have links directly to the appropriate help resource
  • Eclipse help updated to include instructions for authentication
  • When loading test methods into the test tree, the performance is now much better. It no longer blocks until all methods are loaded but instead loads asynchronously. The user experience difference is quite dramatic
Thanks to a user named Goyiux for prompting the authentication stuff. Thanks to all the dudes on the eclipse newsgroups for answering my pestering questions about dumb layout stuff. Thanks to Weyerbacher for brewing really good 10% beers for numbing the NTLM/Axis pain.

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