Ignore this if your not into this sort of thing - it's overkill for most things - I'm just adding it as polish.
I have just started working on adding Unit Tests to the open source handler library. I am just going to hack it right now by taking the basic framework I had in my old offline library and essentially doing the same online using Rev cgi's. I've done a little research to catch up on the latest developments - but nothing much has turned up so i am keeping it simple at the moment based around - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XUnit. The idea I am working on at the moment is that the handlers are kept as text files on the server and that these text files also include a full suite of tests to run against the hander. Changes or improvements to a handler can then be tested locally by fetching the tests and data from the server, and if the new version passes the tests uploaded where it will again be tested and run against the server before committing it to subversion. The embedded test suite also includes internal references to values used in the tests and the values of the results that pass the tests. To make development of test easier there will be a Rev client that allows creating and running simple scripts against the handler, and throwing a bunch a default data at it. Finally if the handler has any dependencies (ie it calls other handlers in the hierarchy) these are fetched and added to the script - so that the whole test is self contained. I'd like to add benchmarking and other features to this stack if there are any samples knocking around that I can freely incorporate . Also if anyone has any real experience of unit tests in other languages it would be good to get some tips - in fact ideally the tests would be described in a semi-language neutral way - so that the same test could be run against various languages using the same data and speed, legibility and other factors could be compared - but AFAIK these things remain language specific? _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
