Re: DBI Driver Tests

2004-01-23 Thread Thomas A. Lowery
Thanks for all the input. I'm going to attempt to write a draft outlining the goals and basic design this weekend. On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 11:24:59PM -0500, Jeff Urlwin wrote: > > > > Just my initial thought. An intended SCOPE would be nice > > for those of > > > us who would like to contribu

Re: DBI Driver Tests

2004-01-23 Thread Honza Pazdziora
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 02:02:45PM -0500, Jeff Urlwin wrote: > > I, actually, think the "Driver" test would be more useful for Driver writers I would definitely appreciate a framework that would be testing individual DBI features of the driver. It would be up to the driver author to specify which

Re: DBI Driver Tests

2004-01-23 Thread Tim Bunce
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 11:24:59PM -0500, Jeff Urlwin wrote: > > > > The "Driver" test would, IMHO, be VERY dependant upon the > > conformance > > > tests, to know what to test and to know how to approach inserts, > > > deletes, etc. > > > > What do you mean by "how to approach inserts ..."? >

RE: DBI Driver Tests

2004-01-22 Thread Jeff Urlwin
> > My initial purpose for suggesting such a test suite was the > initial difficulty I had when I first wrote a DBD: docs were pretty > thin, and there was a lot of painful trial and error. And I'm > certain I'm *still* not in conformance in a lot of places > (esp. as DBI API changes roll out)

RE: DBI Driver Tests

2004-01-22 Thread Jeff Urlwin
> > On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 02:02:45PM -0500, Jeff Urlwin wrote: > > My initial input would be: > > > > Ensure that we have proper goals!!! > > > > Is this going to be a DBI conformance test or a driver test > suite? I > > belive those are two different (but not incompatible) goals. > > Ulti

Re: DBI Driver Tests

2004-01-22 Thread Tim Bunce
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 12:33:58AM +0100, H.Merijn Brand wrote: > On Thu 22 Jan 2004 20:02, "Jeff Urlwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My initial input would be: > > > > Ensure that we have proper goals!!! > > Reading this, and Tim and Dean's comments, I'm sure it will give another > throttle t

Re: DBI Driver Tests

2004-01-22 Thread H.Merijn Brand
On Thu 22 Jan 2004 20:02, "Jeff Urlwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My initial input would be: > > Ensure that we have proper goals!!! Reading this, and Tim and Dean's comments, I'm sure it will give another throttle to the time I will spend in improving my DBD I'm realy looking forward in *usi

Re: DBI Driver Tests

2004-01-22 Thread Dean Arnold
> My initial input would be: > > Ensure that we have proper goals!!! > > Is this going to be a DBI conformance test or a driver test suite? I belive > those are two different (but not incompatible) goals. A conformance test > would be more simple, in that it would test the interface to the drive

Re: DBI Driver Tests

2004-01-22 Thread Tim Bunce
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 02:02:45PM -0500, Jeff Urlwin wrote: > My initial input would be: > > Ensure that we have proper goals!!! > > Is this going to be a DBI conformance test or a driver test suite? I belive > those are two different (but not incompatible) goals. Ultimately both, I hope, thoug

DBI Driver Tests

2004-01-22 Thread Jeff Urlwin
My initial input would be: Ensure that we have proper goals!!! Is this going to be a DBI conformance test or a driver test suite? I belive those are two different (but not incompatible) goals. A conformance test would be more simple, in that it would test the interface to the driver not necessar