NoSQLUnit 0.4.1 Released

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NoSQLUnit is a JUnit extension to make writing unit and integration tests of systems that use NoSQL backend easier. Visit official page for more information.

In 0.4.1 release, after supporting Cassandra in 0.4.0 version, one new NoSQL system is supported and is Redis.

Redis is an open source, advanced key-value store. It is often referred to as a data structure server since keys can contain strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets.

As all databases supported by NoSQLUnit, two set of rules are provided to write Redis tests:

First set of JUnit Rules are those responsible of managing database lifecycle; basically starting and stopping Redis instance.

• Currently Redis does not support embedded lifecycle. For this reason I am developing an embedded in-memory Redis mock. It is based in Jedis library, and will be released in next version. Issue #22.
• Managed: com.lordofthejars.nosqlunit.redis.ManagedRedis

Second set of rules are those responsible of maintaining database into known state;

• NoSQLUnit Management: com.lordofthejars.nosqlunit.redis.RedisRule

And finally default dataset file format in Redis is json. 

We will use a very simple example used in Redis tutorial as an example of how to write unit tests for systems that uses Redis database as backend.

First of all, dataset used to maintain Redis into known state:

and finally the test case:

Next release 0.4.2 will contain fixes for issues #22, #23, #24 and #25. Moreover there are an open a poll to vote which engine would you like to see in 0.5.0 release:

Vote For Next Engine

Stay in touch with the project and of course I am opened to any ideas that you think that could make NoSQLUnit better.

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