Hi Noury,

At the moment it's hard-coded to 100 data points. It'd be better to
pull that out into some kind of configuration object though.

frank

On 25 September 2013 11:19, Noury Bouraqadi <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Frank,
>
> This sounds cool. But, how do you decide how many data you generate per test 
> run ?
>
> Noury
> On 23 sept. 2013, at 11:19, Frank Shearar wrote:
>
>> I played around with a combination of data driven testing and random
>> data generation a while back:
>> * http://www.lshift.net/blog/2011/09/13/checking-squeak-quickly
>> * http://www.squeaksource.com/SqueakCheck/
>>
>> There is a ConfigurationOf there. It integrates with SUnit by adding a
>> new kind of TestCase that knows how to run theories, identified by
>> pragmas. It also features the recording of a counterexample to your
>> theory by generating a normal test method on the relevant TestCase
>> subclass.
>>
>> I haven't touched the code in a while, but if there's interest I'd be
>> happy to hack on it once more.
>>
>> frank
>>
>> On 22 September 2013 21:43, laurent laffont <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> in phpunit there's a @dataProvider annotation, so one method returns a
>>> several data sets for a test method. I'm not sure that's the best design but
>>> it's nice to have one unit test result per data set. See
>>> http://phpunit.de/manual/current/en/writing-tests-for-phpunit.html#writing-tests-for-phpunit.data-providers
>>>
>>>
>>> Translating the example to Pharo that should give something like:
>>>
>>> TestCase subclass: #DataTest
>>>
>>> DataTest>>testAdd: a to: b shouldAnswer: c
>>>  <dataProvider: #provider>
>>>  self assert: c equals: a + b
>>>
>>> DataTest>>provider
>>> ^ { {0. 0. 0}.
>>>        {1. 0. 1}.
>>>        {0. 1. 1}.
>>>        {1. 2. 3} }
>>>
>>> It may not be to difficult to implement in SUnit. What do you think about
>>> this ?
>>>
>>> Laurent
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Jan Vrany <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I actually already thought on this as I have similar problems.
>>>> So far I just create a bunch of tests, passing the actual set of
>>>> parameters to a common test method as message arguments.
>>>>
>>>> For different framework (not SUnit, but similar spirit), I introduced a
>>>> notion of "parameter", each having a domain. When running test, the runner
>>>> computes all possible combinations of parameter values and run the test on
>>>> each such combination. I would like to have something similar
>>>> in SUnit, but there are some issues. This is the feature I would like to
>>>> see in SUnit 6.x, but I/we have to finish 5.0 first - I wonder if I ever
>>>> find a time to do push it :-(
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 21/09/13 11:06, Noury Bouraqadi wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Last ESUG I attended the cool katas session organized by Stephan
>>>>> Eggermont and Laurent Laffont.
>>>>> That was a good opportunity to step back and think about my TDD practices
>>>>> .
>>>>>
>>>>> To experiment with the style proposed by Laurent, I started writing tests
>>>>> for a pong.
>>>>> I ended up having groups of nearly identical tests:
>>>>> -they use exactly the same objects, send the same messages,
>>>>> -but they differ only by values.
>>>>>
>>>>> An example, is testing the motion of the ball towards different
>>>>> directions or collisions with obstacles at different locations or speeds.
>>>>>
>>>>> Now, I wonder what is the best way to express those similar tests?
>>>>>
>>>>> In a short discussion before I leave, Stephane told me about tables of
>>>>> values. It seem that there is such a support in the ruby world in the
>>>>> cucumber framework. Do we have anything similar in Smalltalk world?
>>>>>
>>>>> BTW, the full ESUG conference was great. Thanx to local organizers, and
>>>>> all people that contributed to make it a success.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanx,
>>>>> Noury
>>>>> Ecole des Mines de Douai
>>>>> http://car.mines-douai.fr/noury
>>>>> --
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>
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