Brian, I appreciate your comments.
> You should check out https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-710 > <https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-710>. There's been a great deal of > discussion on this topic in the past. I think we left off with the idea that > we should use SourceKit to generate the list of tests (+cc Daniel Dunbar). > This work has largely been abandoned. If you'd like to pick it up, you could > have huge impact! This’s a great comment. I’ll check what I can do. > I'm not sure I understand your first two points. Are you suggesting that we > implement some method of kicking off tests on an iOS simulator, but only when > corelibs-xctest framework is linked with the application bundle...? I'd > appreciate it if you could explain what you mean in more detail. Let me clarify my first two points. In general you’re correct. I suggest implementing some method that triggers the same logic that XCTestMain does. But instead of calling exit, when the work is done, returning the exit code. I suggest implementing API that allows creating XCTestSuite from a list of XCTestCaseEntries. Ilya > On 2 Dec 2016, at 21:00, Brian Gesiak <modoca...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hey Ilya, > > I'm glad you're thinking about how to use corelibs-xctest on mobile devices. > I'd like to prepare it for Android as well, and I think there's a lot of > overlap here. > > > This proposal is because Swift has very poor reflection at the moment. So I > > suggest creating a generator (pre-build script) for Swift test cases that > > for example is able analysing concrete folder with swift files and generate > > e.g. TestCases.swift file. This script is intended to be used manually. > > You should check out https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-710 > <https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-710>. There's been a great deal of > discussion on this topic in the past. I think we left off with the idea that > we should use SourceKit to generate the list of tests (+cc Daniel Dunbar). > This work has largely been abandoned. If you'd like to pick it up, you could > have huge impact! > > I'm not sure I understand your first two points. Are you suggesting that we > implement some method of kicking off tests on an iOS simulator, but only when > corelibs-xctest framework is linked with the application bundle...? I'd > appreciate it if you could explain what you mean in more detail. > > - Brian Gesiak > > > On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 5:57 AM, Ilya Laryionau via swift-corelibs-dev > <swift-corelibs-dev@swift.org <mailto:swift-corelibs-dev@swift.org>> wrote: > Hello Community, > > I’m working on adding iOS platform support for SwiftXCTest. So I’ve have the > following proposals and would like to hear feedback from the community. > SwiftXCTest runs the tests in a way `XCTMain([ testCase(TestFoo.allTests) > ])`. XCTMain supports only Linux / FreeBSD / macOS. So I suggest introducing > an API that will provide a similar way of running tests as XCTMain, but in a > case using SwiftXCTest as a framework e.g. on iOS. It could be the same logic > that just returns exit code, when XCTMain just exits with this code. > The suggestion above (number 1) is good, but too simple for using SwiftXCTest > as a framework, since we only have exit code and debug logs. So my second > proposal is providing mechanism of initialising root test suite with array of > testCases (array of XCTestCaseEntry objects) with the same structure that > XCTMain does. This isn’t possible now since XCTestCaseSuite class that is > used to initialise root test suite (see XCTMain.swift line 80) is internal. > This proposal is because Swift has very poor reflection at the moment. So I > suggest creating a generator (pre-build script) for Swift test cases that for > example is able analysing concrete folder with swift files and generate e.g. > TestCases.swift file. This script is intended to be used manually. > Looking forward to any feedback. > > Ilya > > _______________________________________________ > swift-corelibs-dev mailing list > swift-corelibs-dev@swift.org <mailto:swift-corelibs-dev@swift.org> > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-corelibs-dev > <https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-corelibs-dev> > >
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