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From: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@online.de>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ert: Where to define tests?
Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 12:53:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51D15F99.409@online.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA7qzwhp-1hPMarz0EEvc_W=jYczOe4Fq=VVub+1Qp70E7dt6w@mail.gmail.com>

Am 28.06.2013 01:21, schrieb Moritz Ulrich:
> This question came up in irc today:
>
> Where should one define ert tests?
>
> - In a separate file, to keep the source clean?
> - In the source files itself?
>    - Should the file (require 'ert)?
>    - (eval-after-load 'ert '(...))?
>
> It doesn't look like this is documented. If there's a consent on this,
> it should be documented in the ert Info page as well as in the info
> page about packaging.
>
> Cheers,
> Moritz Ulrich
>
>

Hi Moritz,

IMHO there is no general answer, while mostly a separate file seems preferable. Writing tests might introduce bugs inside tests, which should not affect the source.

OTOH in some cases it might make sense not to use a source until tests passed.
Then making it part of the source seems consequent.

Cheers,

Andreas





      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-07-01 10:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-27 23:21 ert: Where to define tests? Moritz Ulrich
2013-06-28  2:49 ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-07-01 10:53 ` Andreas Röhler [this message]

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