The Uize.Test.declare method was used extensively for creating unit test classes using a more concise and convenient declarative form.

Unfortunately for the Uize.Test base class, the Uize.Class base class (from which the Uize.Test class is derived) implements a Uize.Class.declare static method that is available universally to subclasses as a means of declaring features for a class. The Uize.Test class was, naturally, overriding the inherited declare static method with a method of its own having the same name but completely different purpose.

Given the importance of the Uize.Class.declare method as a fundamental component of the UIZE class mechanism, it was decided to force a rename of the Uize.Test.declare static method.

Partly, this is to not allow this confusion to persist in the codebase. More importantly, however, it is to allow test base classes to be created for specific categories of tests, and to allow those test base classes to be able to declare features (such as instance and static methods) using the declare method inherited from the Uize.Class base class, should they so choose.

The Uize.Test.declare method has been renamed to Uize.Test.resolve since it essemtially resolves an object to a test class.

If a test class is passed to it, it returns the test class as is. The method has always behaved this way and it has, essentially, always been a resolver type method.

The rename of the Uize.Test.declare method to Uize.Test.resolve is a breaking change with no backwards compatibiliy provisions.

This means that any unit test modules that have already been written and that use this method need to be updated to use the method by its new name in order to continue to work. Renaming the Uize.Test.declare method to Uize.Test.resolve means that the Uize.Test class will no longer override and will, therefore, inherit the Uize.Class.declare method. So, unit test modules that are not updated will now be doing something different to what they thought there were doing.

All unit test modules of the UIZE JavaScript Framework have been modified to now use the newly renamed =Uize.Test.resolve method.