[ANN] OSpec 0.2.0 - BDD for OCaml

[ANN] OSpec 0.2.0 - BDD for OCaml

[Andre Nathan]

Hello

I'm happy to announce a new version of OSpec, a Behavior-Driven Development
tool for OCaml using a Camlp4 syntax extension. You can download this release
from the ocamlcore forge at

  http://forge.ocamlcore.org/projects/ospec/

or directly clone the repository from Github:

  http://github.com/andrenth/ospec/tree/master


== New features:

* Nested specifications: it is now possible to group related examples in a
nested "describe" block. For example,

  describe "Person" do
    describe "name" do
      it "should not be empty" do
        (String.length person.name) should be > 0
      done;
      it "should only contain valid characters" do
        (person.name) should match_regexp "^[A-Za-z- ]+$"
      done
    done
  done

* Property testing (inspired by QuickCheck): OSpec can now autogenerate
test cases with the "forall" keyword. For example,

  describe "A list" do
    it "should equal itself when reversed twice" do
      forall list l . (List.rev (List.rev l)) should = l
    done
  done

This will generate lists of random length and test each one against the
specified property.

There are 28 predefined random sample generators for the basic OCaml
types which can be used directly in tests or as building blocks for
custom generators.

* Better error handling: exceptions in the specifications are now caught
and reported.

== Bug fixes:

* Properly count pending examples.


OSpec is released under the MIT license. Please see the README file in the
distribution for more details and examples.


Best regards,
Andre