Unitils is an open source library aimed at making unit testing easy and maintainable. Unitils builds further on existing libraries like DBUnit and EasyMock and integrates with JUnit and TestNG .
Unitils provides general asserion utilities, support for database testing, support for testing with mock objects and offers integration with Spring , Hibernate and the Java Persistence API (JPA). It has been designed to offer these services to unit tests in a very configurable and loosely coupled way. As a result, services can be added and extended very easily.
Currently Unitils offers following features:
The project started begin 2006 from an Ordina J-Technologies discussion group on unit testing. The result was a list of guidelines and Unitils emerged in an attempt to write code to support these guidelines.
2008-05-02 - Release of Unitils 1.1 rc 2
In this release, some small issues have been resolved: Postgresql support is improved, the database version is correctly updated during a from-scratch update and a test is added to check whether the version table is correctly migrated. See the migration page for more information on the migration of the version table.
2008-03-28 - Release of Unitils 1.1 rc 1
We've been working hard to implement following features: JPA integration, support for hierarchically organized database scripts, support for Oracle PL/SQL in database scripts. Also, Unitils' transaction management and hibernate integration have been re-implemented on top of spring's abstraction layer for ORM and transactions. Unitils' JPA integration is also built on top of spring's JPA abstraction layer. Therefore, spring (2.0 or later) has become a depencency of unitils for all persistence-layer testing features. This doesn't mean your application code necessarily has to use spring: spring is used by unitils under the hoods, transparantly.
Unitils 1.1-rc-1 bundles all these new features. Read the tutorial for more information on Unitils' new features. Take a look at the migration page to see what you must do to migrate to unitils 1.1-rc-1.
2007-12-05 - Release of Unitils 1.0
The Unitils team is proud to announce the release of Unitils 1.0. Big thanks to everyone who has helped to make this possible!
2007-10-23 - Release of Unitils 1.0 rc 5
Release candidate 5 for Unitils is available. This will be the last release candidate before the 1.0 release. It contains some fixes, JUnit 4.4 support, extra utility methods for database testing, extra configuration for data set locations etc.
2007-10-23 - Unitils on Parleys
Video of the Unitils presentation given at Spring-One is available at Parleys .
2007-09-25 - Switched to JIRA
We've migrated the issue and feature tracking to JIRA! Bugs and feature requests can now be reported at http://jira.unitils.org .
2007-08-15 - Release of Unitils 1.0 rc 4
Release candidate 4 for Unitils is available. It contains some important fixes, support for loading multiple data sets and easier access to the behavior of the dbmaintainer. Note that this version is not fully backwards compatible with rc 3, there is a small change in the default behavior of the @DataSet annotation. A migration path is available here .
2007-06-20 - Release of Unitils 1.0 rc 3
Release candidate 3 for Unitils is available. It contains multi-schema support, transactional testing support and support for Db2. Note that this version is not fully backwards compatible with rc 2, a small set of properties has been renamed or redefined. A migration path is available here .
2007-03-15 - Article on Spring site
The Testing Spring - Hibernate applications with Unitils article was posted on the Spring site, demonstrating how one can use Unitils to easily test Spring-Hibernate applications.
2007-04-22 - Release of Unitils 1.0 rc 2
Release candidate 2 for Unitils is available. It contains fixes for reported issues and support for extra databases such as PostgreSql and Oracle 10. Thanks for the valuable feedback!
2007-03-08 - Release of Unitils 1.0 rc 1
A release candidate for Unitils is available. This version adds Spring integration and simplifies some of the existing functionality, such as the loading of Hibernate configuration files. It also contains a major update of the tutorial, cookbook and guidelines. Congratulations and thanks to everyone who has helped to make this possible!
2006-12-13 - Quicky at JavaPolis
Unitils has been introduced at JavaPolis in a short 15-minute session. Read the presentation summary for more information. The slides of the presentation can be found here .
2006-12-09 - Release of Unitils 1.0 beta 1
The Unitils development team released Unitils 1.0 beta 1. We also published the site content on SourceForge. Congratulations and thanks to everyone who has helped to make this possible!
