On 2/22/08, Tim Schaub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey- > > Erik Uzureau wrote: > > Tim, this is a nice new addition to the testing suite. Great work! > > > > a) do you think you could put a copy of this email in a wiki > > somewhere? It would probably be nice to be able to refer back to this > > in the future > > Sure. Without a more appropriate place (but wiki's aren't really about > appropriate places are they?) to put it, I've added some stuff to the > WritingUnitTests page: > > http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/WritingUnitTests#ModificationstoTest.AnotherWay
perfect. nice one! > If anybody else wants to document any other changes to testing stuff > [1], it could be tacked on there. > > > > > b) have you contacted the Test.Anotherway people to see if they would > > be interested in a patch? > > > > Well, let's see how it works for us before we go trying to sell it. am I wrong in _assuming_ that your code actually works? :-) seriously, in the spirit of open source big love, it would be at least worthy of mentioning it to them on their mailing lists or something. it seems like a good addition to the test suite and i imagine they woul be interested --e > Tim > > > Erik > > > > On 2/22/08, Tim Schaub wrote: > >> Hey- > >> > >> So, I assume that the people for whom this is relevant already read > >> commit messages, but I thought I'd document an addition to our testing > >> framework here anyway. > >> > >> If you're writing tests for anything that does parsing of XML, I've > >> added a method to Test.AnotherWay test objects that will be useful. The > >> new xml_eq method is similar to html_eq except it works for generic xml > >> (and works in Safari and FF3 where html_eq fails). > >> > >> Use is pretty straightforward. You can compare element nodes to element > >> nodes, nodes to strings, or strings to strings. > >> > >> I added a single script to our run-tests.html page that extends > >> Test.AnotherWay: > >> http://trac.openlayers.org/browser/trunk/openlayers/tests/xml_eq.js > >> > >> Though I grimace when I see this much code in email, I'll paste a couple > >> examples: > >> > >> // Pretend we're on a test page in a test function > >> var format = new OpenLayers.Format.XML(); > >> var doc, got, exp; > >> > >> // Create a doc and check that root is equivalent to some string > >> doc = format.read( > >> "<chicken>soup</chicken>" > >> ); > >> got = doc.documentElement; > >> exp = "<chicken>soup</chicken>"; > >> t.xml_eq(got, exp, "passes"); > >> > >> // See what happens with bad expectations > >> exp = "<chicken>fat</chicken>"; > >> t.xml_eq(got, exp, "fails"); > >> // Fails with the following message: > >> // Bad child 0 for element chicken: Node value mismatch: got soup > >> // but expected fat > >> > >> // Test xml with different namespace aliases > >> got = "<foo:chicken xmlns:foo='namespace'>soup</foo:chicken>"; > >> exp = "<bar:chicken xmlns:bar='namespace'>soup</bar:chicken>"; > >> t.xml_eq(got, exp, "passes"); > >> > >> // Assert that prefixes are equal > >> t.xml_eq(got, exp, "fails", {prefix: true}); > >> // Fails with the following message: > >> // Node name mismatch: got foo:chicken but expected bar:chicken > >> > >> > >> Etc. > >> > >> Tim > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Dev mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev > >> > > > > !DSPAM:4033,47bf4b4d47441030819293! > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev > _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
