On Nov 11, 2007 3:50 PM, Scott Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Nov 11, 2007, at 12:47 PM, David Chelimsky wrote: > > > On Nov 11, 2007 11:01 AM, Alvin Schur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>> On Nov 08, 2007, at 6:07 pm, Alvin Schur wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>> My goal is to detect inter-dependencies sooner than later... > >>>> > >>> > >>> > >>> I have to say I've NEVER run specs backwards. Am I sitting on a > >>> time > >>> bomb? Are there subtle traps that can create inter-dependencies > >>> between specs? To look at my specs I would not assume that running > >>> order matters - I don't think I've ever used before(:all) for > >>> example. > >>> > >>> Ashkey > >>> > >> Our team uses Test::Unit and numerous inter-dependencies have > >> crept in. > >> Our team is also slowly moving to rspec. > >> > >> Part of resolving the inter-dependencies is: > >> > >> 1) education > >> 2) early detection > >> > >> I don't want to be the "dependency police" particularly if rspec > >> can do > >> the job automatically for everyone on the team. > > > > Well - I don't think rspec should do this implicitly - that might > > cause quite a bit of confusion for unsuspecting devs trying to debug. > > > > I command line arg like --toggle_reverse might work - but you'll have > > to submit a feature request in the tracker and probably a patch if you > > want to see it any time soon. Very low priority on my list. > > I really like this idea, especially having had the following experience: > > My coworker had no failing tests with rake spec, but I was having > failing tests with Autotest. He had introduced something into before > (:all) which stored some data into the database. Oddly enough - the > tests weren't failing for him, although they were failing in reverse > for me- showing a dependency between the specs. The worst part is > that he was convinced this was a non-problem (because they were > passing for him). > > I would implement this patch, if I had some good idea where I should > store the state of the last test run (without adding an extra text > file to my project).
You've got to maintain state between processes. How else would you do it besides a text file? > > Scott > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users > _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
