I agree, except that as far as i know there is no platform-specific tests yet.

On 7 August 2013 09:49, Torsten Bergmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Igor,
>
> NB includes OS specific classes and examples that will/may require OS 
> specific tests.
>
> IMHO it would make sense to change "NativeBoost-Tests" category into
>
>  - "NativeBoost-Tests-Core"
>  - "NativeBoost-Tests-Mac"
>  - "NativeBoost-Tests-Unix"
>  - "NativeBoost-Tests-Win32"
>
> while still keeping "NativeBoost-Tests" as one package. Later the package can 
> be
> split easily (but only if necessary).
>
> So we have categories for the NB Core tests and OS specific tests similar to 
> the other
> packages/categories.
>
> I would further provide common superclasses for OS specific tests, for 
> instance
>
>  TestCase subclass: #NBWin32SpecificTest
>         instanceVariableNames: ''
>         classVariableNames: ''
>         poolDictionaries: ''
>         category: 'NativeBoost-Tests-Win32'
>
> and similar NBUnixSpecificTest and NBMacSpecificTest also.
>
> By overriding their #isAbstract method we can make their hierarchy only be 
> runnable on
> the specific OS. So the OS specific Jenkins slaves will show broken OS 
> specific code,
> Unix tests will not run on Mac, etc.
>
> Therefore we can control that the tests only run on the OS platform and find
> out when things fail.
>
> What do you think? I can do it when there is another minute.
>
> Thx
> Torsten



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Best regards,
Igor Stasenko.

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