Symflower Newsletter November - JUnit 5 & Java 17 support, new features, and the software trends for 2023!

Hi there???

We’re excited to bring you this month’s newsletter with our latest updates to Symflower! Sneak peek: we now fully support JUnit 5 and made it our default. We also support newer Java features and switched to Java 17 as the default! What’s more, we’ve added a ton of other new features to help you get even more productive.

Make sure to check out our video on how smart test templates help you significantly cut the time you spend writing tests manually. Getting ready for the end of the year, we’re presenting our predictions on the defining software development & testing trends for 2023 – read our trends forecasts and see if you agree!

How to write unit tests faster with Symflower

Do you still write unit tests manually? ???? There’s a faster way to do it. Evelyn shows you how you can write unit tests faster in this one-minute tutorial ???

It's raining features

In the last weeks, we've optimized Symflower and added new features that pack a punch!?Check out our favorite additions???:

JUnit 5 and Java 17: Symflower now fully?supports JUnit 5 and we made it our default. We also support newer Java features and switched to Java 17 as the default. These involved major changes so please let us know at?[email protected]?how you like them.

Significant optimization: The newest version of Symflower brings you DRASTIC optimizations for mono-repos and automatic generation of tests. Our benchmarks show an improvement of 50-266% ??

We don't send your code home: Not a new feature, but a reminder given current events. Unlike other new software development?tools,?Symflower?works without sending your source code to external servers. ???? We are working hard to accomplish all computations in real time locally on your machine ?? while you are coding!

New formatting logic:?To better handle more complicated projects, Symflower now detects the indentation and other formatting styles of each file individually when changing test code??? ?? To change the default style, you can now just update your formatter’s configuration.

Test generation for unknown types: Symflower has taken the next step towards incremental real-time code analysis while you are typing ?? It can now generate tests for code that has unknown types in its signature or body. This allows us to generate unit test values even for code that does not?compile yet.

Clearing diagnostics: Due to popular request, Symflower now clears diagnostics of a file when the last editor showing a file is closed ???

Floats to float your boat???: So you are into floats and like to use different bases to express your values? ?? No problem! Hex 0x1p0, octal 0o1p0 or any other format – we now support them all!

Create JUnit tests more productively with Symflower

We are excited to announce ?? that we switched the default test framework for #Java to #JUnit 5! This update also includes setting the default to Java 17 ?? Of course you can overwrite all defaults yourself.

Software Testing Trends for 2023

These are the key Software Testing Trends for 2023! ?? We at?Symflower?predict that these 5 factors will shape the testing landscape next year. Did we miss a trend? Let us know!

Software Development Trends for 2023

These are the 7 key trends defining Software Development in 2023 ?? Read Symflower's predictions on languages, technologies & architecture trends for next year & beyond!