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🚀 ApproveJ 0.9.4 is out

🆔 The new named method of the ApprovalBuilder now allows to approve multiple values in one test case. Previously the first approved file would have been overwritten by the second.

👉 https://github.com/mkutz/ApproveJ/releases/tag/v0.9.4

#approvaltesting #jvm #java #kotlin

🎉 ApproveJ v0.9.3 is out!

📅/🕗 introduces 16 new pre-defined Scrubbers for date/time strings
🐞 fixes broken parsing if a date/time pattern contained a square bracket within an optional part

👉 https://github.com/mkutz/ApproveJ/releases/tag/v0.9.3

#approvaltesting #snapshottesting #java #kotlin #testing #jvm

Michael Kutz Jun 3

🚀 ApproveJ 0.8.6 was just published

👁️ adds new review mechanism to automatically open a diff/merge tool if needed

#approvaltesting #snapshottesting #java #kotlin

Michael Kutz May 5

The program for the @AgileTDZone is out…

…and I'm really happy to be in it as a speaker 😃
This year I'm going to give my brand new talk on documentation. "WTFM: Where’s the F****** Manual⁈" is about

😮‍💨 understanding why documentation is hard,
📝 learning a systematic approach to know what to document when and in what form,
🙂 make documentation a more rewarding and even fun activity.

https://agiletestingdays.com/2025/session/wtfm-wheres-the-f-manual/

#agiletd

Agile Testing Days

Agile Testing Days - November 23 - 26, 2024 in Potsdam, Germany - Europe's GreaTest Agile Testing Conference for Software Testers, Developers & Managers

Michael Kutz May 2

🚀 ApproveJ 0.8 was just released

🖼️ adds support TestNG and Spock in addition to JUnit 5
🐞 fixes ObjectPrinter running into a StackOverflowError when printing Enums
🧹 removes deprecated instants and date Scrubbers

👉 https://github.com/mkutz/ApproveJ/releases/tag/v0.8

Release Release v0.8 · mkutz/ApproveJ

Changelog 8e2060f Remove dates and instants from Scrubbers 2b47f7c Add support for JUnit4, TestNG and Spock 231dbb0 Add banner template 43d65b8 Add Enum and Class to simples types 9141daa Add dateT...

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Michael Kutz Apr 30

🚀 ApproveJ 0.7.1 is out

🗓️/🕙 `dateTimeFormat` scrubber for any date/time format defined by a date/time format string (e.g. "yyyy-MM-dd" or "HH'h' mm").
The new scrubber will replace the current `instants` and `dates` scrubbers.

👉 https://github.com/mkutz/ApproveJ/releases/tag/v0.7.1

Release Release v0.7.1 · mkutz/ApproveJ

Changelog core 🗓️🕙 New Scrubbers.dateTimeFormat The new Scrubber can be used to remove any date/time string from a received string. E.g. Response response = sendMessage("Hello World!"); approve(re...

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Michael Kutz Apr 24

@joschi I wasn't aware of that one tbh. I used https://github.com/approvals/ApprovalTests.java so far and had some issues with the API.

I'd say the approach of Java Snapshot Testing's API looks quite similar at first glance.

The concept of scrubbing seems to be missing, though.
Also, ApproveJ has a slightly different approach to how and where to store the snapshots.
Certainly, ApproveJ is less mature, right now.

Again, that's an at first glance comparison.

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Michael Kutz Apr 24

@apas_csc yeah, had the same feelings about this. I think storing the previously approved values in a file and checking it in to the VCS is what makes approval testing a bit different from deepEquals.

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Michael Kutz Apr 24

ApproveJ is a new implementation of Approval Testing for the JVM. It provides a fluent API and is highly customizable.

Check it out
👉 approvej.org

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