On 10/04/2010, at 2:55 AM, Rob Powell wrote: > I have been looking into various tools used for unit testing and regression > testing, thinking on how to approach the goal of having a regression test > framework for fossil. > > I want to use something that is fairly cross-platform, running on all > environments that fossil runs, windows, linux, mac. > I want to have something that is mostly contained within itself, as few > external dependencies as possible. > I want to be able to edit and add tests without going through a development > process of re-compiling and building the test framework. > Anyone (on any system) should be able to work on the framework without > requiring specialized tools/packages to be installed.
I suggest you seriously look at the tcltest facility, used by the Tcl/Tk test suite. There are lots of links from the Tclers Wiki Tcltest page at http://wiki.tcl.tk/tcltest It can be run by a stand-alone Tcl interpreter (single file - tclkit), is mature and extremely capable, with lots of examples. Given that many in the fossil community are capable Tclers, I'd also anticipate a lot of support is available. I'm all for reinventing square wheels, but on this occassion I suggest that it would be better to use something proven, capable, well supported and evolving :) Steve
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