On 17 Feb 2014, at 11:26 , Alexander Shorin <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Jan. > > This is good idea, but I think the implementation should be different. > > What's the main problem of Ruby's tests? It isn't reusable. You cannot > use it for testing brand new query server done in language X. You'll > have to rewrite it completely. That's boring and counter productive. > > Instead of this, we could just provide JSON test files: input and > output. The work flow for every query server will be trivial: clone > repo with test files, read the input.json send it to query server > expect the output.json. That's is. And we're all will be sure that > every query server in the world shares same behaviour for every cases > and especially for edge ones. I did this mainly to encourage more people to fix up the Node query server. I’m happy to think about how to turn this into a more general query server testing framework once we’ve got that, until then, you are still welcome to do so, but I’ll focus on something that I know I could finish (some help would still be nice though :). Best Jan -- > > > -- > ,,,^..^,,, > > > On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Jan Lehnardt <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I spent my Sunday hack time on extracting our rather hidden and >> little-exercised query server tests >> (https://github.com/apache/couchdb/blob/master/test/view_server/query_server_spec.rb) >> into a standalone project as well as porting it to node, to finally get rid >> of our Ruby dependency there. >> >> I’ve only got the basic framework and two tests ported yet, but it should be >> all set up to be filled in with the rest of the tests. Any help on the >> legwork there would be appreciated :) >> >> The basic idea is that we a) shed the tests for the erlang query server, as >> we should move them into the etap tests and b) make this a custom project, >> so other query-server implementations have an easier time testing. I hope we >> can maintain this at the ASF git as the `couchdb-test-couchjs` repo >> (bikesheds welcome). >> >> The project is here: https://github.com/janl/couchdb-test-couchjs >> >> Tests are written like this: >> https://github.com/janl/couchdb-test-couchjs/blob/master/lib/tests/map.js >> >> If you like to help and get stuck, let me know, I’m happy to help and I’d >> love some help on this :) >> >> Hope you like this! >> >> Best >> Jan >> -- >>
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