2. Geez, that would be nice. As far as I know there isn’t. Corona SDK has a desktop emulator, and this emulator is a command line tool on top of their stuff. It does have a step debugger, but that’s about it. I’m sure there is something out there, though, given Lua’s variety of implementations (embedded testing, etc). I just haven’t looked myself. That, plus, I haven’t done that large of implementations on Lua, heh; usually CI is for larger language frameworks… however, now that we have a Node.js version called Luvit, maybe that’ll change?

3. Yes, they didn’t appear to have the bredth of asserts, and everyone I found online and in forums seemed to say Lunatest was the most legit. That, and I don’t like things mucking around with assert/metatables; that was a selling point of a few of them.

4. You don’t need it if you’re not using Corona SDK. If you are, you need it, else it’ll below up. Search for “[jwarden” in the code, you’ll see my 3 minor changes.

No, there’s nothing to keep up to date, really. That is, unless a newer build of Corona SDK breaks it, in which case I’ll fix it.

5. I know there is luacov, but I haven’t been able to get it to work yet. Not sure if it’s my class-as-closure based system, or the way I do require or what yet…

Q5 – Is there a coverage report you can get? like RCov for ruby?

Q1 – So do you just effectively run the tests every time you run up the app during development then? (noting you run it via main.lua) Wondering if there are some addition seconds/minutes of lag time each time you want to rerun your app during development after making a change

Q2 – Does Lunatest have an autorun / continuous integration tool, so it just runs every time you save a file (like Ruby autotest) and then you can get a growl notification if there is a fail? Or perhaps the issue is then the tool would need to have it’s own lua engine and not use the Corona SDK??? Would be nice though

Q3 – Did you look at any other libraries out there re unit testing for Corona? i.e. if so and you’ve already gone through this we might then jump straight to Lunatest too

Q4 – So you recommend to get the modified version of Lunatest you did correct? Is there any issues in terms of Lunatest updates here? Not sure if you’re considering considering keeping your fork up to date for this? (or how much hacking was involved to change)

thanks again