From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Fabian Ezequiel Gallina <galli.87@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs-Devel devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: ert tests and dependencies.
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 16:22:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <hzmwuyhe93.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABq4mQtY+7VSfzwNtEimqs_9ddoSVYMW2+BPQnr23DDE6Ro0-Q@mail.gmail.com> (Fabian Ezequiel Gallina's message of "Wed, 20 Feb 2013 18:09:15 -0300")
Fabian Ezequiel Gallina wrote:
> I'm planning to add tests for the python.el shell integration, but for
> these to run successfully a python executable must exist in the
> system.
>
> So the question is, what's the preferred way to define these kind of
> tests that depend on other executables than Emacs?
>
> I'm thinking on something like this:
>
> (ert-deftest python-shell-test ()
> (if (not (executable-find "python"))
> (message "skipping python-shell-test...")
> (should ...))
>
> But perhaps this has been discussed or there's a standard way already.
For vc-bzr, I used:
(ert-deftest vc-bzr-test-bug9726 ()
"Test for http://debbugs.gnu.org/9726 ."
:expected-result (if (executable-find vc-bzr-program) :passed :failed)
(should (executable-find vc-bzr-program))
...)
A proper way to skip tests would be nicer.
http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=9803
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2013-02-20 21:09 ert tests and dependencies Fabian Ezequiel Gallina
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