What is it? A free (GNU GPLv3 license) graphic unit test runner for showing the results of your unit tests.

Why is it made? Mainly to speed up your FlexUnit tests compared to the shipped UIRunner. If your unit tests take to long to run you will probably don’t run them as often and then you loose one main advantage of unit testing. Secondly because the GUI is not excellent. For example the most common task when a test fails, is to see where it fails. To do this you need to re-size columns in the result table to get the name. And the second is the stack trace which is stuffed in a minimal text box. More info here

How is it done? The main thing is that it doesn’t use any flex components. So you don’t need to load the flex component framework.

LURunner is available on GitHub at: https://github.com/bob-lu/LURunner

LURunner is created by Bob Dahlberg at Isotop.