Thanks for the feedback, Sean. It's nice to know the difference before I
start in earnest.
Paul
On 10/31/07, Marc Esher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> gotcha. I thought that's what you were talking about but wasn't certain.
>
> coming from java, I remember being initially annoyed at cfcunit for how it
> behaved, I guess because I was so used to adding a message into my
> assertions, however brief. when i moved to cfunit, i just wrote an eclipse
> snippet for the assertions I use, so I don't even think about the args
> anymore.
>
> But I can appreciate your point.
>
> thanks.
>
> On 10/31/07, Sean Corfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 10/31/07, Marc Esher <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
> > > Sean, an you elaborate?
> >
> > On what? The differences in the frameworks?
> >
> > Here's the most important one that comes to mind:
> >
> > Java doesn't have default parameters so in jUnit, the assert() methods
> > have: message, expected, actual. cfUnit follows that. Since the
> > message really isn't needed a lot of the time, you end up using named
> > parameters a lot in cfUnit.
> >
> > cfcUnit takes a more idiomatic CF approach by acknowledging this and
> > placing message at the end, as an optional argument, so you just
> > assert(exp,act) instead.
> >
> > cfUnit follows jUnit's method signatures and tries to deduce types
> > when you're asserting things. Java is strongly typed so it can figure
> > this out and cast things as necessary. cfUnit can't always figure it
> > out (because CF doesn't really have types).
> >
> > cfcUnit acknowledges that CF is a dynamically typed language so it
> > provides assertEquals{Type}() methods so you, the programmer, can tell
> > the framework what types you expect.
> > --
> > Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN
> > An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/
> >
> > "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive."
> > -- Margaret Atwood
> >
> > > >
> >
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