Olemis Lang wrote:
> On 7/20/09, Jeff Hammel <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 09:29:22AM -0500, Olemis Lang wrote:
>> > On 7/20/09, Jeff Hammel <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 08:47:21AM -0500, Olemis Lang wrote:
>> >
>> > Well concerning test frameworks (e.g. `unittest`, `doctest` ...) I
>> > imagine (I'm sure ?) it's possible. but in the case of Trac plugins
>> > there is a peculiar characteristic:
>> >
>> > - How do I get an env populated with the test data ?
>> > - How do I mock things ?
>> > - How can I setup (in the test code) the test env so that it can load
>> > my plugin ?
>> >
>> > > > - How ? I mean what are the best practices, procedures, steps (or
>> > > > whatever ;o) to do it.
>> > >
>> > > Shoot, I wish I knew. I'd love to know myself.
>> >
>> > The former are just a few questions (doubts ?) I have. I could start
>> > writing all that from scratch using any testing framework, but I
>> > imagine that you already have shortcuts for this (isnt it ? oh !
>> > please tell me so :( ... ).
>>
>> No, sadly, my shortcut is not to write tests because its difficult
>>
>
> Wow ! What a tiny shortcut ! :P
>
> Well in that case I could take some time to make it simpler, but I'd
> not want to start from scratch specially knowing that maybe there's
> something out there being useful ;o)
>
> The fact is that some plugins I maintain are getting bigger and I
> really need to find a way to perform regression tests automatically on
> them. I prefer to spend some time writing something for that purpose
> instead of wasting the same time (or more :-/ ) testing every single
> feature and their interactions
>
I have some tests in some of my plugins, but not nearly as much as I'd
like. Take a look at irclogsplugin parsing_refactor branch
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