From: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>
To: Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: testing macros and fixtures
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 22:54:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFyQvY0Q_tHXt5M4avgBuOV85RU_0rUicVxLorMQ1gmAL9XMwg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h9lvkcxx.fsf@russet.org.uk>
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verilog-mode runs similar tests from outside emacs.
From the terminal, the verilog-mode functions are run in emacs batch mode
on files in the tests/ dir and and the results are compared against the
files in tests_ok/ dir (if I understand correctly).
Repo on github which is then commited to emacs core:
https://github.com/veripool/verilog-mode
Perl script to run batch tests:
https://github.com/veripool/verilog-mode/blob/master/batch_test.pl
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Kaushal Modi
On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 5:13 PM, Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk>
wrote:
>
> I have been thinking about testing since it was raised in one of the
> last gargantuan threads.
>
> ERT is quite nice, but one of the things that I have found lacking is a
> nice set of predicates, for use within should.
>
> So, when I wrote test for my "lentic" package I needed some functions
> like, so that I could do things like:
>
> (should
> (test-eq-after-this
> "blah-before.txt"
> "blah-after.txt"
> (insert "hello")))
>
> which opens "blah-before.txt" runs (insert "hello") then compares the
> result with "blah-after.txt". My version of this also does a diff of the
> results if the two are not equal.
>
> I've noticed that "puppet-mode" has some thing similar. For instance:
>
> (puppet-test-with-temp-buffer "# class
> bar"
> (should (eq (puppet-test-face-at 1) 'font-lock-comment-delimiter-face))
> (should (eq (puppet-test-face-at 3) 'font-lock-comment-face))
> (should (eq (puppet-test-face-at 7) 'font-lock-comment-face))
> (should (eq (puppet-test-face-at 8) 'font-lock-comment-face))
> (should-not (puppet-test-face-at 9))))
>
> And julia-mode has indentation checking tests like so:
>
> (julia--should-indent
> "
> if foo
> bar
> else
> baz
> end"
> "
> if foo
> bar
> else
> baz
> end"))
>
>
> My own experience is that these are actually quite hard to right. The
> ones in lentic have never worked quite right -- that is, when it all
> works they are fine, but restoring state after a crash doesn't always
> work. Similarly, checking that, for example, test files are not already
> open before a test is run interactively.
>
> So, the point of my question is this; are there any good libraries
> providing this kind of fixture logic? A lot of this should surely be
> re-usable between different packages.
>
> Phil
>
>
>
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-13 2:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-12 21:13 testing macros and fixtures Phillip Lord
2015-10-13 2:54 ` Kaushal Modi [this message]
2015-10-13 9:23 ` Phillip Lord
2015-10-13 9:16 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-10-13 11:34 ` Phillip Lord
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