Hi Lukas,

Thanks for your review. We made this in a couple of days.
You suggested some cool changes, indeed.

Cheers,
Alexandre


On 1 Apr 2009, at 12:07, Lukas Renggli wrote:

> I have a few questions to the authors of the SUnit History feature:
>
> 1. I noticed is that all the results are stored in a dictionary of
> TestResult mapping the classes to their last result. When I delete
> tests, these obsolete classes remain references from the dictionary
> and thus never get garbage collected. Why not save the history in a
> class-instance variable of the TestCase itself? That would even make
> the code much simpler.
>
> 2. Why to store the history of test results in nested dictionaries,
> sets and arrays? We have a nice TestResult object that remembers
> exactly the same information and additionally allows to do all kinds
> of queryies like #hasFailures, hasPassed, ... I see that there is one
> problem here: the current implementation of TestResult remembers the
> test case instances, and thus would reference potentially a lot of
> unnecessary state. Maybe TestResult should only remember the method
> references of the tests, instead of the test cases? I guess that would
> solve other problems people regularly report with SUnit as well.
>
> Lukas
>
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