About Scalactic

Scalactic was written by Bill Venners starting in 2012. The Scalactic library grew out of the ScalaTest 2.0 effort, it is small and can be used in production conveniently without depending on ScalaTest.

Scalactic's source code is hosted together with ScalaTest, but deployed as different artifacts (ScalaTest Jar includes Scalactic also, but you can use Scalactic alone through the Scalactic Jar). You can browse the source code:

https://github.com/scalatest/scalatest

You can git clone it to your local disk with this command

git clone https://github.com/scalatest/scalatest.git

To contribute, please fork the repo on your GitHub account, make your changes and submit a pull request.

Building ScalaTest/Scalactic

Pre-Requisites

To build ScalaTest/Scalactic, you'll need:

JDK 8
SBT

and use the following options in your SBT launch file:

SBT_OPTS="-server -Xms512M -Xmx2048M -Dfile.encoding=UTF8 -Xss1M -XX:MaxPermSize=512M -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:+CMSIncrementalMode -XX:+DoEscapeAnalysis -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=64m"

Building and Running Tests

This command will build and run the regular tests:

$ sbt test

To run generated tests, you'll need to increase maximum heap size to -Xmx3072M, and use this command instead:

$ sbt "project gentests" "test"

What it does is simply switch to gentests project and run test.

Issues Reporting

Issues can be submitted here:

https://github.com/scalatest/scalatest/issues