There are various tests sprinkled around the world. Our primary test suite is the Rubicon, an updated version of the tests written by the Pragmatic Programmers when writing the first Ruby book on 1.6. They provide a pretty good set of tests, but they're far from exhaustive. They're mainly a good sanity check.
We also have our internal tests that grow as we find bugs or language quirks that aren't tested by Rubicon. Finally, there are also a set of tests shipped with Ruby's own source. We have occasionally tried to use those tests as well, but we have found they are better at testing complex behaviors than simple ones. It's as if they only reflect discovered bugs, somewhat like our own internal tests. So the short answer is that, no, there's no complete set of tests for Ruby, which makes our job, Ko1's job (creator of YARV), and the MetaRuby guys' jobs harder. Our best tests these days are running existing applications like IRB (which now works after an intensive bug-fixing cycle) and Rails (which still needs quite a bit of work in JRuby). On 3/7/06, Galarneau, Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are there good comprehensive regression tests for the Ruby language? > > I would guess that good regression tests would help both JRuby & YARV > (and other similar projects). > > Are there some areas in Ruby that are important but aren't covered well? > > > Neil > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language > that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast > and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Jruby-devel mailing list > Jruby-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jruby-devel > -- Charles Oliver Nutter @ headius.blogspot.com JRuby Developer @ jruby.sourceforge.net Application Architect @ www.ventera.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0944&bid$1720&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Jruby-devel mailing list Jruby-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jruby-devel
