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I’ve recently released version 2.0.1 of Expect for .NET library. In this post you will find list of changes, what unexpected behavior was fixed and next release announcement. Changelog Repair Bug by Mark Rain (CC BY 2.0) The only change is fix of matching mechanism used to find expected string in output. Previous versions used regular expressions matching. Because there was not a word about it in documentation, blog posts or tutorials the matching mechanism produced unexpected results when there were used special characters like ‘*’, ‘?’, ‘$’, ‘.’, etc. I decided that this is bug and fixed it in this version. ...

Expect for .NET 2.0.0 change log ‘065/365: Show us your smile!’ by Ben Smith (CC BY-SA 2.0) List of changes in version 2.0.0 (in comparison to versions 1.x): redesigned API fixed problems with VB.NET changed namespace name replaced timeout getter/setter methods with properties updates in build script ...

I’ve just uploaded to NuGet Expect for .NET 2.0.0-rc. It’s version 2.0.0 release candidate. Here is description how to install prerelease package: link. Give it a try and let me know what you think. All feedback is welcome :) The 2.0.0-rc version contains a few changes (some of them are not backward compatible): changed namespace name replaced timeout getter/setter methods with property updates in build script Details below. ...

I will show two ways how to install prerelease NuGet package: using command line and using NuGet package manager integrated into Visual Studio. ...

Beta by Simon Cunningham license CC BY 2.0 I’m happy to announce that beta release of Expect for .NET 2.0.0 was published. It can be downloaded using NuGet and from github. As it is beta release there may be introduced some API changes prior to final release. The released version was tested with both C# and VB.NET applications. Example applications can be found in github repository. ...

Expect for .NET 1.2.0 overview Expect for .NET 1.2.0 introduced one major change not strictly connected to code. New versioning system. Some of you probably noticed that I was looking for good versioning system. Now I found the one with clear and strictly defined rules - Semantic Versioning (http://semver.org). Below is shortcut of rules from mentioned webpage: ...

Today was released Expect for .NET 1.1.38. The new release contains a few minor changes in API, some improvements for users and changes in existing implementation. New version can be downloaded from github or nuget. ...

Three days ago I released Expect for .NET 1.0.1. The release contains solved defect 14434. The above mentioned defect is the ugly one as it impacted on API and it is not backward compatible. I decided to fix that as it was found just after release 1.0.0 so it shouldn’t impact on many users. And updated API may increase comfort of using the library. The incompatibility lays in naming convention, the function names were in camelCase in release 1.0.0 and in version 1.0.1 it was changed to use PascalCase as it is commonly practiced in most libraries. ...

In post where Expect.NET library was introduced was included short example how to use the library. With this post I’d like to start some post series describing the library in more detailed way. I will start with description of expect timeout handling. ...

A few days ago I released Expect.NET version 1.0.0. As it is first public release of this library, I will start with short introduction, then describe its functionality and how to get that. ...