The idea is excellent.

Cheers,
Alexandre


On 3 Jun 2010, at 10:22, laurent laffont wrote:

> 
> 
> 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
> 
>  
> 
> Cheers,
> Alexandre
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