On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Dag H. Wanvik <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Hi Hiranya,
>
> Hiranya Jayathilaka <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > I'm in the middle of writing the new tests for dblook. When going through
> > the existing dblook tests I realized that they are not junit tests. Some
> of
> > the test classes have main methods. So I was wondering how should I
> organize
> > the new tests. Should they be written as junit tests or should they be
> > similar to the existing tests?
>
>
> I had forgotten the old dblook tests were not in JUnit :( Converting
> those adds a not insignificant extra amount of work for you..
>
> Maybe you could first build the new tests in JUnit, and if you have
> time, convert the old test cases at the end of your effort,


+1. That's what I had in mind too.

Thanks,
Hiranya


> maybe the
> old tests will be fully superceded by your tests in any case.
>
> If you think converting the old tests will definitely be too much work
> given the time remaining, augmenting the present tests is also
> acceptable, I think. The community could convert them to JUnit
> later. I think it is more important that you get new tests in at all,
> than what format they are in.
>
> Obviously, we would prefer JUnit ;-) since we are trying to get rid of
> the canon based tests.
>
> Thanks again for your efforts!
>
> Dag
>

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