Lukas, Stefan, SUnit might not be designed to be extensible, but does it have a choice? :) One thing that I have added for a long time is this:
TestCase class>>prod:aSymbol
( self selector:aSymbol ) runCase.
There are probably even better ways to do the same thing, but the idea has
always been (thinking in GUI terms for the moment) that test runners are great
for getting a summary of which tests pass and which ones fail. Once I decide
to use a specific test to reproduce a defect I want to fix, there is probably
already a #prod: message in a comment, something like this:
testFromGizmoWithAlarms
"5-11 - First alarm data"
| in out results monitorData |
"
GizmoTests prod:#testFromGizmoWithAlarms.
"
"5-11 - early alarm messages, maybe"
in := #[ ... ] readStreamORDataServer.
out := Array writeStream.
[ in atEnd ] whileFalse:[
out nextPut:( GizmoMessage readFromEncodedStream:in ).
].
self should:[ in atEnd ].
results := out contents.
results first data.
FWIW, far too many of these methods have breakpoints in them, so maybe I need a
"global" switch to control the halts or a #prodAndDebug: method that will halt
on a message send that #prod: ignores.
It is true that OB will do pretty much the same thing from the IDE (control-t -
very cool).
The attached illustrates some more elaborate tricks that I have used. Note
that the interesting stuff is Dolphin-specific and, as-is, probably won't work
in Pharo. My point is mostly that with a few well chosen loose methods, SUnit
can do things it was never intended to do, such as
SomeTestCase runTestsReferecing:#asMonitorData.
SomeTestCase runTestsReferecing:#realizeTabLineFor:.
or even
SomeTestCase runNonGraphicalTests.
SomeTestCase runGraphicalTests.
Bill
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Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] Any alternative to HDTestReport?
> Is there any alternative available to HDTestReport to be able to run headless
> tests, or actually run the SUnit tests in a non-morphic image?
Not that I know of.
> I found the HDTestReport via Lukas github repo, I think, and in the Pharo
> Core regression testing image.
> Is any of them ever going to be part of the standard SUnit?
I don't think that HDTestReport is useful (something more generic
would maybe). SUnit is not designed to be extensible and HDTestReport
is merely a hack to be able to execute SUnit tests and create a JUnit
compatible XML output so that Hudson can create nice graphs.
Lukas
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TestCase class-*dolphincompatibility-idioms.st
Description: TestCase class-*dolphincompatibility-idioms.st
