On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Alexandre Bergel <[email protected]>wrote:

> > You may have a lot of noise.
> >
> > I guess that Ruby uses files as a unit of development/deployment. The
> closest Smalltalk/Pharo has is the class and the package.
> >
> > I would suggest that TestCase which would use this feature use some
> pragma/method to identify/declare which classes/packages this test depends
> upon. Then the "autotest" framework would register such tests and listen for
> changes in the given classes/packages, launching required tests whenever a
> change happen.
> >
> > Additionally, one could declare such a pragma on a single test method,
> when this test should be run for a specific class.
> >
> > Of course, you also to take care of long running tests, which you
> probably want to exclude from auto-testing.
>
> I see autotest in Pharo in a slighly different way: When I press save in
> the Monticello browser, I have a popup menu which asks me whether (i) I want
> to run all the tests or (ii) only the tests that cover that I changed from
> the last version.
>
> Does this make sense?
>

Please no popup :) What I like in ruby autotest is that I can quickly look
at test results if I want (or not) without stop writing. Often you want to
see your tests failing, as you type / save code. I don't have to stop
writing, click a button, wait test results, go again.... testing is done in
background and I just see notifications whether it's OK or not.

So test log in a Transcript is OK for me.


For autotest unit of work is file: it runs the test file which has the same
name as the code file, but you can customize this behavior. For
autotest-rails:
"A simplified version of Autotest heuristics in this mode would be:
When changing a test file, only this file is run
(e.g. test/unit/foo_test.rb →test/unit/foo_test.rb).
When changing a model file, only associated unit test file is run
(e.g.app/models/foo.rb → test/unit/foo_test.rb).
When changing a controller file, associated functional test file is run
(e.g.app/controllers/foo_controller.rb →test/functional/foo_controller_test.rb).
When changing a fixture file, associated unit test and functional test are
run
(e.g.app/fixtures/foos.yml → test/unit/foo_test.rb
+test/functional/foo_controller_test.rb).
When changing a helper file, associated functional test file is run
(e.g.app/helpers/foo_helper.rb →test/functional/foo_controller_test.rb).
When changing application_helper.rb file all functional test files are run
(e.g.application_helper.rb → test/functional/*_test.rb).
When changing a file under the config directory, all tests are run."

Laurent



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