Michael,
Somehow I have been receiving messages from your company. I don't know why
and I really don't know what you are talking about (content-wise). It may
be a routing mistake. If not, could you please remove me from your email
distribution list? Thanks for your help.
Craig Thiebaud
Branch Manager
Brian Scott & Associates
972.818.4848 x.45
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael McCallum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 1:18 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Test Suites]
On Monday 19 February 2001 14:17, you wrote:
} You could create a set of JUnit test cases and have ant call them instead
of } creating a specific ant task just for regex tests. Other apache
projects } are doing this ( velocity, turbine )
Could do.
What I want is a simple way for anyone to write a test scipt for
1) A pattern eg \w, \w+, etc etc
2) A set of constants on a class eg EmailProcessingConstants.RE_USERNAME
The reason I wanted to make it a task is that everyone would have it
available with ant.
And there are a lot of projects that use re's. Otherwise I would have to
distribute the test.
I wiil have a look at what velocity and turbine have done.
Basically the testing of re is not a project specific thing at the code
level where the junit
test comes in but a configurable thing like a xml script of tests.
I was looking at the ant source last night and its using some re anyway.
Because they way they use
it lead very nicely into a testing task I think it would be suitable. At the
moment they use an adapter to
abstract away a particular regexp implementation from ant. If someone
chooses to use another package they
just have to implement the RegExpMatcher class. But how do they know it
works properly. Here comes
room for a nice test.
But I digress. I will have a look at JUnit, I should be using it anyway so
Ill see. They code will look the
same whether its wraped in JUnit or Ant anyway.
Michael
