Ugo Cei wrote:Il giorno 09/apr/04, alle 14:16, Marc Portier ha scritto:more?Write tests, maybe? ;-)
agree, in fact I'm just looking at most of the samples being broken ATM (hoping it's only local)
do you have any suggestions on a sensible template for those tests?
I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "template" here. When I did a contribution to Woody, I wrote a small set of Junit test cases for it (see src/blocks/forms/test/org/apache/cocoon/forms/datatype), extending ExcaliburTestCase. Another approach is to use Anteater. I don't think there's a generic template that you can reuse easily.
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Actually, I was just pointing out that, without a comprehensive suite of tests, it's very hard to keep sanity in our codebase and understand what's going on. I might go as far as to suggest that we shouldn't accept new components and blocks without a comprehensive accompanying test suite. And the same goes for refactorings and bugfixes on stable blocks and the core.
I know I am guilty myself of occasional sloppiness, but when I see an entire new "kernel" for our next generation container being committed without a single test case, I cannot but feel a little worried.
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Ugo
