HEAD

  • ginkgo now provides a hint if you accidentally forget to run ginkgo bootstrap to generate a *_suite_test.go file that actually invokes the Ginkgo test runner. #345

1.3.0 3/28/2017

Improvements:

  • Significantly improved parallel test distribution. Now instead of pre-sharding test cases across workers (which can result in idle workers and poor test performance) Ginkgo uses a shared queue to keep all workers busy until all tests are complete. This improves test-time performance and consistency.
  • Skip(message) can be used to skip the current test.
  • Added extensions/table - a Ginkgo DSL for Table Driven Tests
  • Add GinkgoRandomSeed() - shorthand for config.GinkgoConfig.RandomSeed
  • Support for retrying flaky tests with --flakeAttempts
  • ginkgo ./... now recurses as you'd expect
  • Added Specify a synonym for It
  • Support colorise on Windows
  • Broader support for various go compilation flags in the ginkgo CLI

Bug Fixes:

  • Ginkgo tests now fail when you panic(nil) (#167)

1.2.0 5/31/2015

Improvements

  • ginkgo -coverpkg calls down to go test -coverpkg (#160)
  • ginkgo -afterSuiteHook COMMAND invokes the passed-in COMMAND after a test suite completes (#152)
  • Relaxed requirement for Go 1.4+. ginkgo now works with Go v1.3+ (#166)

1.2.0-beta

Ginkgo now requires Go 1.4+

Improvements:

  • Call reporters in reverse order when announcing spec completion -- allows custom reporters to emit output before the default reporter does.

  • Improved focus behavior. Now, this:

    FDescribe("Some describe", func() {
    It("A", func() {})

    FIt("B", func() {})
})

    will run B but not A. This tends to be a common usage pattern when in the thick of writing and debugging tests.

  • When SIGINT is received, Ginkgo will emit the contents of the GinkgoWriter before running the AfterSuite. Useful for debugging stuck tests.

  • When --progress is set, Ginkgo will write test progress (in particular, Ginkgo will say when it is about to run a BeforeEach, AfterEach, It, etc...) to the GinkgoWriter. This is useful for debugging stuck tests and tests that generate many logs.

  • Improved output when an error occurs in a setup or teardown block.

  • When --dryRun is set, Ginkgo will walk the spec tree and emit to its reporter without actually running anything. Best paired with -v to understand which specs will run in which order.

  • Add By to help document long Its. By simply writes to the GinkgoWriter.

  • Add support for precompiled tests:

    • ginkgo build <path-to-package> will now compile the package, producing a file named package.test
    • The compiled package.test file can be run directly. This runs the tests in series.
    • To run precompiled tests in parallel, you can run: ginkgo -p package.test

  • Support bootstrapping and generateing Agouti specs.

  • ginkgo generate and ginkgo bootstrap now honor the package name already defined in a given directory

  • The ginkgo CLI ignores SIGQUIT. Prevents its stack dump from interlacing with the underlying test suite's stack dump.

  • The ginkgo CLI now compiles tests into a temporary directory instead of the package directory. This necessitates upgrading to Go v1.4+.

  • ginkgo -notify now works on Linux

Bug Fixes:

  • If --skipPackages is used and all packages are skipped, Ginkgo should exit 0.
  • Fix tempfile leak when running in parallel
  • Fix incorrect failure message when a panic occurs during a parallel test run
  • Fixed an issue where a pending test within a focused context (or a focused test within a pending context) would skip all other tests.
  • Be more consistent about handling SIGTERM as well as SIGINT
  • When interupted while concurrently compiling test suites in the background, Ginkgo now cleans up the compiled artifacts.
  • Fixed a long standing bug where ginkgo -p would hang if a process spawned by one of the Ginkgo parallel nodes does not exit. (Hooray!)

1.1.0 (8/2/2014)

No changes, just dropping the beta.

1.1.0-beta (7/22/2014)

New Features:

  • ginkgo watch now monitors packages and their dependencies for changes. The depth of the dependency tree can be modified with the -depth flag.
  • Test suites with a programmatic focus (FIt, FDescribe, etc...) exit with non-zero status code, even when they pass. This allows CI systems to detect accidental commits of focused test suites.
  • ginkgo -p runs the testsuite in parallel with an auto-detected number of nodes.
  • ginkgo -tags=TAG_LIST passes a list of tags down to the go build command.
  • ginkgo --failFast aborts the test suite after the first failure.
  • ginkgo generate file_1 file_2 can take multiple file arguments.
  • Ginkgo now summarizes any spec failures that occured at the end of the test run.
  • ginkgo --randomizeSuites will run tests suites in random order using the generated/passed-in seed.

Improvements:

  • ginkgo -skipPackage now takes a comma-separated list of strings. If the relative path to a package matches one of the entries in the comma-separated list, that package is skipped.
  • ginkgo --untilItFails no longer recompiles between attempts.
  • Ginkgo now panics when a runnable node (It, BeforeEach, JustBeforeEach, AfterEach, Measure) is nested within another runnable node. This is always a mistake. Any test suites that panic because of this change should be fixed.

Bug Fixes:

  • ginkgo boostrap and ginkgo generate no longer fail when dealing with hyphen-separated-packages.
  • parallel specs are now better distributed across nodes - fixed a crashing bug where (for example) distributing 11 tests across 7 nodes would panic

1.0.0 (5/24/2014)

New Features:

  • Add GinkgoParallelNode() - shorthand for config.GinkgoConfig.ParallelNode

Improvements:

  • When compilation fails, the compilation output is rewritten to present a correct relative path. Allows ⌘-clicking in iTerm open the file in your text editor.
  • --untilItFails and ginkgo watch now generate new random seeds between test runs, unless a particular random seed is specified.

Bug Fixes:

  • -cover now generates a correctly combined coverprofile when running with in parallel with multiple -nodes.
  • Print out the contents of the GinkgoWriter when BeforeSuite or AfterSuite fail.
  • Fix all remaining race conditions in Ginkgo's test suite.

1.0.0-beta (4/14/2014)

Breaking changes:

  • thirdparty/gomocktestreporter is gone. Use GinkgoT() instead
  • Modified the Reporter interface
  • watch is now a subcommand, not a flag.

DSL changes:

  • BeforeSuite and AfterSuite for setting up and tearing down test suites.
  • AfterSuite is triggered on interrupt (^C) as well as exit.
  • SynchronizedBeforeSuite and SynchronizedAfterSuite for setting up and tearing down singleton resources across parallel nodes.

CLI changes:

  • watch is now a subcommand, not a flag
  • --nodot flag can be passed to ginkgo generate and ginkgo bootstrap to avoid dot imports. This explicitly imports all exported identifiers in Ginkgo and Gomega. Refreshing this list can be done by running ginkgo nodot
  • Additional arguments can be passed to specs. Pass them after the -- separator
  • --skipPackage flag takes a regexp and ignores any packages with package names passing said regexp.
  • --trace flag prints out full stack traces when errors occur, not just the line at which the error occurs.

Misc:

  • Start using semantic versioning
  • Start maintaining changelog

Major refactor:

  • Pull out Ginkgo's internal to internal
  • Rename example everywhere to spec
  • Much more!