On Monday, 9 April 2018 at 20:19:35 UTC, Seb wrote:
On Monday, 9 April 2018 at 19:36:23 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
On Monday, 9 April 2018 at 18:15:33 UTC, kinke wrote:
[...]
This whole idea came about because a couple of years ago I was
in a team that was responsible for legacy code written in C
which had no tests. To write tests, we needed both to write
the tests themselves and some fakes/mocks/doubles for the code
that we depended on - essentially a whole operating system. I
wasn't going to write that in C, since life is too short for
that.
[...]
Speaking of dstep - it has greatly improved over the last years.
I'm interested what stop you from using it or improving it
(instead of rolling your own tool)?
I tried using dstep as the translation engine to avoid
reinventing the wheel. I'm lazy, I don't want to write code that
doesn't neeed to be written!
Unfortunately, dstep makes assumptions that are valid for it's
trying to do that aren't for what I am, and ultimately made it
very hard. The refactoring that would be needed would have been
more work than doing it from scratch, so I sighed, cracked my
knuckles, and wrote a bunch of code I didn't really want to.
I did copy the part of its test suite that was applicable though.
