Finally announcing a brand new Kotlin Multiplatfor...

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[Oliver.O]

Finally announcing a brand new Kotlin Multiplatform test framework: TestBalloon was built from the ground up to make writing all kinds of Kotlin tests simple and fun, everywhere!

What's in it for you:

✅️ Use state-of-the-art test organization with expressive names, an unrestricted hierarchical structure, multi-level configuration, dynamic test generation, parallelism and fixtures.
✅️ Test faster without extra code generation tasks, reflection or classpath scanning.
✅️ Write tests quickly with ease, using TestBalloon's lightweight, yet powerful and extensible API.
✅️ Be Multiplatform first and coroutines first with a single API for all platforms.
✅️ Run and debug individual tests from the editor with TestBalloon's IntelliJ IDEA plugin.
✅️ Use new Kotlin releases as they appear, while retaining backward compatibility with Kotlin 2.0.

If you like to try it out, enjoy, and please drop your comments right here or in #C0NBD4UF8!

[CLOVIS]

I'm seeing a ~50% speedup for the whole build pipeline when using TestBalloon, compared to Kotest 🎉

I guess it's because Kotest does a lot of classpath scanning (the difference is mostly visible on JVM tests, much smaller on other platforms)

[David]

Exciting to see this project moving along, really hyped about it! And thanks of the chat on kotlinconf!

[Oliver.O]

Thank you! I've really enjoyed our conversation and all the other ones at KotlinConf as well! Moving forward together. 🎈🙂