so will you fix it? Alex?

Stef

> 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:
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>> 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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