Re: Unit-testing of GHC code

2013-08-02 Thread Jan Stolarek
function. Is there a robust way of obtaining that parameter so that the test is portable across machines (I want to make that test a part of the testsuite)? Janek - Oryginalna wiadomość - Od: "Ian Lynagh" Do: "Jan Stolarek" DW: "ghc-devs" Wysłane: środa, 31 l

Re: Unit-testing of GHC code

2013-07-31 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 04:10:46PM +0200, Jan Stolarek wrote: > > and so on (Hunit would only be a convenient interface here). The question is > how can I import a GHC module from within the testsuite and call its > functions to test it they behave propertly? An attempt to simply import the > m

RE: Unit-testing of GHC code

2013-07-31 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
If you can make tests for some particular part of GHC, go right ahead. I don't really know how to test the whole of GHC using Quickcheck Simon | -Original Message- | From: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-boun...@haskell.org] On Behalf Of Jan Stolarek | Sent: 30 July 2013 16:28 | To: ghc-

Re: Unit-testing of GHC code

2013-07-31 Thread Jan Stolarek
. Is there a workaround for this? Janek - Oryginalna wiadomość - Od: "Ian Lynagh" Do: "Jan Stolarek" DW: "ghc-devs" Wysłane: środa, 31 lipiec 2013 13:31:44 Temat: Re: Unit-testing of GHC code On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 05:28:12PM +0200, Jan Stolarek wrote: &g

Re: Unit-testing of GHC code

2013-07-31 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 05:28:12PM +0200, Jan Stolarek wrote: > I spent whole day looking for a bug that lurks somewhere in my code, but I > know I could find it in 2-3 hours if I only could write unit tests for my > code. So the question is: how can I write HUnit and QuickCheck (and maybe > Sma