{ AQ }

For the past two weeks, a lot of improvements has been done for Inspec, here is the list:

• Better scoping / sandboxing
• Support for Rhino, SpiderMonkey, Johnson and WSCript
• Tested to work with IE7, Firefox 3, Chrome and Safari 3
• Added a lot more specs to test Inspec
• Fixed a bug where cascading before / after blocks not getting the correct scoping / sandboxing
• Changed BDD syntax a bit to be compatible with Screw.Unit
• Shamelessly stole all matchers from Screw.Unit
• Added the following matchers:
  • beA – instanceof test
  • throwError – takes an function, and see if it throws an error
  • respondTo – test if an object has a function
  • have – see if an object or array contains something

I’m working on some advanced features that requires some pretty big structural changes right now. They are:

• Support for multiple definition of same behaviors.
• Support for multiple definition of before / after blocks.
• Redo shared example groups ( Allows for sharing local scope variables inside shared example groups)

I plan to finish this feature while I’m taking a business trip to Boston this coming Sunday.

For future, the plan follows:

• Spec, spec spec, 100% coverage require!
• Extract and improve rendering logic from HTMLReporter to HTMLReporter.FlatFormatter
• Implement HTMLReporter.NestedFormater
• Implement HTMLReporter.CompactFormater
• Implement ConsoleReporter.FlatFormatter
• Implement ConsoleReporter.NestedFormater
• Implement ConsoleReporter.CompactFormater
• Implement options for choose formatters, need to consider extending
• Add statistics functionality to Reporter Class
• Test on different browsers
• Selective Behavior Execution support
• Prioritize object printing with toString() if object has customized toString
• Documentation
• Make a wiki

That’s a lot of stuff to complete! If anyone interested please fork Inspec