2009/3/13 Evgeny <evgeny.zis...@gmail.com>: > I actually put a link to the FAQ at the very first mail I sent.It does not > address my questions, it gives examples that say "we can't count tests ahead > of time, its impossible". But I just want you to change the approach from > "ahead of time" into "realtime" or something ... like all the other testing > frameworks do it.
Test::More does count the tests in "realtime", then at the end it compares this count to what you declared it should be. The count in the plan is like a checksum. If you don't want a checksum that's fine, us no_plan or somesuch. Just last week I found myself swearing at pyUnit for the lack of this kind of checksum - a test I had written wasn't actually dong anything. It was always returning early without asserting anything. Of course the mistake was mine but then if I didn't make mistakes, I wouldn't need a test suite and if I could have declared a plan, I would have caught it long ago. Tests find bugs in your app code. plans find bugs in your testing code, F > On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Ovid <publiustemp-perl...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> >> ----- Original Message ---- >> >> > From: Gabor Szabo <szab...@gmail.com> >> >> > On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Evgeny wrote: >> > > If my script ended early, because maybe even a core dump ... the I wont >> > > care. It's just another case of a failed test that cant be reported by >> > > Test::More, but a human looking at the screen will hopefully understand >> what >> > > happened. >> > >> > Human? >> > >> > Why would a human look at a test report that says "everything is ok"? >> >> Don't we have a FAQ about this somewhere? Evgeny's questions are quite >> reasonable, but we're answering them every few months. It would be nice to >> link to a FAQ and be done with it. >> >> >> Cheers, >> Ovid >> -- >> Buy the book - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlhks/ >> Tech blog - http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/ >> Twitter - http://twitter.com/OvidPerl >> Official Perl 6 Wiki - http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6 >> >> >
