From: Masatake YAMATO <yamato@redhat.com>
To: lennart.borgman@gmail.com
Cc: me@nschum.de, web@shellarchive.co.uk, phil@hagelb.org,
ohler+emacs@fastmail.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
rubikitch@ruby-lang.org, joakim@verona.se,
monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: Re: unit test framework
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 12:03:13 +0900 (JST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100324.120313.866373779585127683.yamato@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e01d8a51003230615q566f0533v81dbfae10a7bfe27@mail.gmail.com>
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 10:02 AM, <joakim@verona.se> wrote:
>>
>> I write try to write unit tests for my elisp, and it would be much
>> easier if there was a canonical unit test framework in Emacs.
>>
>> I have written some tests for CEDET, which doesnt really use a
>> framework, and should be included in Emacs(I havent looked at the merged
>> version yet). I have also written some tests in elunit for other
>> packages.
>>
>> I'm currently writing some code that would benefit from simulation of
>> keyboard input, in particular code that uses read, read-number,
>> completing-read etc. Some of the contenders listed above surely does
>> this, right?
>>
>> Anyway, maybe we should make a list of requirements for a unit test
>> package for inclusion. Heres my take:
>>
>> - possibility to generate unit tests reports in test runs during "make"
I've extended ert.el for the purpose.
http://github.com/masatake/ert/commit/5f1bc45c5c54e1f95e9e8ba787f3f66b33ddc583
The patch was improved based on the comment from the original author,
Christian M. Ohler. I asked him to merge my patch to his source tree, but I have got
no response yet.
>> - at least rudimentary user input simulation, to test read, read-number,
>> completing-read etc.
>
>
> I have written some extensions to ert.el that allows running commands
> in the test function (ie calling relevant hooks etc).
>
>
>> - some way of isolating test runs from normal operations
>
>
> I have some small things that starts a new Emacs instance for the tests.
>
>
>
>> - good error reporting, so that you dont have to spend hours in edebug needlessly
>
>
> ert.el have good interactive reporting (that needs some usability
> enhancements, like menu entries), but not so much for saving to file
> (or maybe I have just missed that part).
>
>
>> - convenient way of defining and running tests, in group or one-by-one
>
>
> ert.el does it by regexp matching the names of the test functions.
>
>
Masatake YAMATO
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-24 3:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-18 7:39 unit test framework Masatake YAMATO
2010-03-18 9:31 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-03-18 10:07 ` Leo
2010-03-18 10:23 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-03-18 11:25 ` Masatake YAMATO
2010-03-18 14:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-03-18 14:56 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-03-19 0:16 ` rubikitch
2010-03-19 19:00 ` Phil Hagelberg
2010-03-20 11:01 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
2010-03-23 9:02 ` joakim
2010-03-23 13:15 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-03-24 3:03 ` Masatake YAMATO [this message]
2010-03-23 14:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-04-13 10:32 ` joakim
2010-06-12 6:06 ` Christian Ohler
2010-06-12 13:48 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-06-14 11:24 ` Masatake YAMATO
2010-07-23 21:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-03-23 10:15 ` Philip Jackson
2010-06-27 18:50 ` Philip Jackson
2010-07-09 13:43 ` Christian Ohler
2010-07-09 23:01 ` Glenn Morris
2010-07-10 1:12 ` Christian Ohler
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