Three Rivers Consulting, Inc. today announced that JUnit Max (http://www.junitmax.com), a continuous testing plug-in for Eclipse, is now available.

JUnit Max enables programmers to stay focused on coding by running tests intelligently and reporting results unobtrusively. Available for Java projects, JUnit Max provides the benefits of automated testing every time you save source code.

“We were the first to offer a commercial, enterprise continuous testing tool, enabling programmers to improve focus and reduce overall development time,” said Kent Beck, founder and director of Three Rivers Consulting, Inc. “Customers tell us that our tools deliver great value by saving time in building and testing applications,” continued Beck.

JUnit Max simplifies and accelerates developer testing. It is a high-productivity alternative to existing brute-force test runners. JUnit Max takes advantage of the fact that failures are not randomly distributed to provide results, on average, more quickly than other test runners. The accelerated feedback helps programmers fix errors faster and learn to avoid mistakes in the future.

JBoss recently announced the final release of JBoss Tools 3.1, to compliment  Eclipse 3.5. The product is  classed as a  umbrella project for Eclipse plugins that supports JBoss and related technology. Newer features to JBoss tools include support for CDI, JSF2 BPEL and Smooks. Version 3.1 also comes with ESB support and Maven integration. The company says existing tooling for Hibernate, Seam and Portal have also been improved.

Installation

This is the official version of JBoss Tools that will run on and require Eclipse 3.5 (Galileo). When installing you can either use the remote Update Site or download the update site zip from the main Download for offline installation. In both cases you can pick and choose which plugins/features you want to install.

For some features other dependencies are needed. For example Maven integration requires m2eclipse 0.10. They have done what they can to enable the related update sites, but in case you disabled them explicitly you would need to add or enable them manually. If you have problems with the installation see this

UISpec is a Behavior Driven Development framework for the iPhone that provides a full automated testing solution that drives the actual iPhone UI. It is modeled after the very popular RSpec for Ruby.

To make finding specific views in the iPhone UI easy, UISpec includes a very powerful view traversal DSL called UIQuery. Not only can you easily traverse the view hierarchy, you can also interact with the views you find.

View TesterTools dedicated page for this tool.