unit testing

unit testing

[Perry Smith]

I took something called "yari" and added "buttons" to it and now I have "yari-with-buttons".  What it does is it parses the output of a command called "ri" (from Ruby's documentation system).  The problem is that the output of ri changes (like the wind)... and the internal API changes even faster.

What I need to do is come up with some unit tests so that I can see if it parses all the different types of buffers that ri can produce correctly.  Is there any quasi-formal test unit system already available?

Thank you,
pedz

Re: unit testing

[Andreas Politz]

Perry Smith <pedzsan@gmail.com> writes:

> Is there any quasi-formal test unit system already available?

http://www.google.com/cse?cx=004774160799092323420%3A6-ff2s0o6yi&q=unit+test

-ap

Re: unit testing

[Tim X]

Andreas Politz <politza@fh-trier.de> writes:

> Perry Smith <pedzsan@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Is there any quasi-formal test unit system already available?
>
> http://www.google.com/cse?cx=004774160799092323420%3A6-ff2s0o6yi&q=unit+test
>
> -ap

FWIW emacs 24 now includes a package for regression testing 

ERT is a tool for automated testing in Emacs Lisp.  Its main features
are facilities for defining tests, running them and reporting the
results, and for debugging test failures interactively.

   ERT is similar to tools for other environments such as JUnit, but has
unique features that take advantage of the dynamic and interactive
nature of Emacs.  Despite its name, it works well both for test-driven
development (see
`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test-driven_development') and for
traditional software development methods.


Tim

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