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Welcome to the September 2011 issue of a monthly newsletter devoted to developers testing tools and trends in the JVM world.

So, let us see what important things happened in September 2011.

JUnit

• release of version 4.10, http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/junit/message/23717, release notes can be found at: https://raw.github.com/KentBeck/junit/r4.10/doc/ReleaseNotes4.10.txt,
• and an interesting discussion on new requested feature: @Assume, see http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/junit/message/23636

ScalaTest

• interesting discussion on "timeout" feature - http://groups.google.com/group/scalatest-users/browse_thread/thread/51d8... - seems like sooner or later every framework needs it. :)

Mockito

• a reminder on how to deal with "new" operator http://groups.google.com/group/mockito/browse_thread/thread/d2bf10152fa6... (outcome of the discussion: use DI and read Misko Hevery blog http://misko.hevery.com/)

EasyMock

• moved its issue tracker from sourceforge to codehouse JIRA: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/EASYMOCK (39 open issues at the time of writing). Good to see some life in easymock project. :)

JMockit

• discussion on using JMockit 0.999.10 with TestNG 6.2 http://groups.google.com/group/jmockit-users/browse_thread/thread/0e9576... (outcome: yes, they work fine together), BTW. 0.999.10 ?! What kind of version number is this? ;)

Maven Surefire Plugin

• version 2.10 announced - see http://markmail.org/message/ebizaewnejhhhrr3?q=surefire+order:relevance&... - few bugfixes and some minor improvements.

Arquillian

• Great introductory tutorial on how to use Arquillian with Maven, Selenium, JUnit and some other technologies - see http://community.jboss.org/en/arquillian/blog/2011/09/17/functional-test....
• Also an interesting reminder on the ways you can clean the database when running tests, see discussion on http://community.jboss.org/thread/172607?tstart=30

Other

• http://www.canoo.com/blog/2011/09/26/testdata-generation/ by Erik Jan de Wit can generate data for unit tests. Interesting.
• Another interesting article on Google Testing Blog - http://googletesting.blogspot.com/2011/09/10-minute-test-plan.html

See you next month!

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Thank you, this is the end of Testing Newsletter September 2011 issue.

I plan to publish the newsletter monthly bringing the news from JUnit, TestNG, Spock, ScalaTest, jBehave, easyb, Mockito, EasyMock, JMock, Powermock, FEST Assertions, Hamcrest, Arquillian, Cargo, Selenium, soapUI, jMeter and many more.