As many folks know, I’ve long been an advocate of Paul Kenney’s cfcUnit unit testing framework. I felt it offered the most solid code base and the best all-round feature set in a package that was idiomatic for ColdFusion developers. Unfortunately, the website has not been updated in over 18 months and, although a new build was made available on sourceforge.net a year ago (1.2.0 Beta 1), there has been no progress on integration with Eclipse.

Since unit testing has become an increasingly important part of any project that I work on, I’ve had to review what else is available. Right now, the best of breed for ColdFusion seems to be MXUnit.

The documentation is still somewhat thin, albeit somewhat better than cfcUnit, but it has a rock solid ant integration and a very slick Eclipse plugin, as well as a very convenient way to automatically run any unit tests found within an entire directory tree.

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