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Re: Unit Testing [message #52057 is a reply to message #43473]

Wed, 03 January 2007 14:51

Robbie
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Registered: February 2006

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Dear Mike,

Thanks for the feedback. I think my key problem is that I haven't used
unit testing in other languages before. I would like to make something
which compliments the incremental compiling nature of IDL and I want to
avoid writing a .pro file parser.

> 1. Why isn't it object-oriented?
I think that writing objects in IDL is quite clumsy. I guess I haven't
had the need for unit tests to be based inside objects yet. I'm
concerned that using OO would deviate from unit tests being short and
sweet.

> 2. You say "The final aim of this project is to fully support xUnit
> testing automation, including support for fixtures." How will you
> support fixtures?
I was thinking of getting fixtures to SetUp() and TearDown() a common
block. I could also use keywords to do the same sort of thing. This is
where I should probably be using OO.

> 3. How does "unitException" have access to local variables?
I can't believe I missed that one! I should probably stick to using
wrappers of CALL_PROCEDURE, CALL_FUNCTION and CALL_METHOD.
unitExceptionFunction just doesn't roll off the tongue too well :)

> 4. Why do the test names end in an ordinal? Why not
> hashtable__testAdding, etc?
I've developed a nasty habit of using ordinals in the suffix. I guess I
shouldn't tempt anyone else to do the same thing. Any procedure,
function or method with __test in it would become a unit test. Perhaps
I should allow unitSearch specify exclusions.

Thanks

Robbie

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		unit testing for IDL? By: Thomas Pfaff on Wed, 13 April 2005 06:14
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		Re: Unit Testing By: Qing on Tue, 06 February 2007 18:10
		Re: Unit Testing By: Robbie on Wed, 03 January 2007 18:51
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		Re: Unit Testing By: Richard French on Wed, 03 January 2007 18:06
		Re: Unit Testing By: Michael Galloy on Wed, 03 January 2007 15:16
		Re: Unit Testing By: Robbie on Wed, 03 January 2007 14:51
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