Thread overview
unittest and assert
Sep 03, 2005
ElfQT
Sep 03, 2005
ElfQT
Sep 03, 2005
ElfQT
Sep 03, 2005
ElfQT
Sep 04, 2005
Charles
September 03, 2005
Is it true that the first assert that fails breaks the execution? That's not a nice thing.

Unittest run should report all succeeding and failing cases in one run!

Also, assert badly needs a message (to write when assert fails) part. Assert should report module,class,method not only the line number.

And for me, a bit strange that unittests will run on first execution. Should
be a different run.
(If I am making a lib, do I have to make an executable out of it to unittest
it?)

ElfQT


September 03, 2005
> Unittest run should report all succeeding and failing cases in one run!
>
> Also, assert badly needs a message (to write when assert fails) part. Assert should report module,class,method not only the line number.

Well, I figured it out that I can implement these on my own with a custom
unittest class.
(Using writefln, __FILE__, __LINE__)

ElfQT


September 03, 2005
> Well, I figured it out that I can implement these on my own with a custom
> unittest class.
> (Using writefln, __FILE__, __LINE__)

OK, or maybe not that nice, because I only can include __FILE__ and __LINE__ at every single assert call, and not in the class doing the reporting... (Since no #define or such. Should a mixin help?)


September 03, 2005
> Also, assert badly needs a message (to write when assert fails) part. Assert should report module,class,method not only the line number.

As I begun to think about it, with the "nunit" unit testing framework (for
c# implementation)
the AssertEquals(<ValueofVariable>, <ExpectedValue>, <message>) format
become the standard,
because then the framework is able to report the value of the variable
failing and the expected value.

ElfQT


September 04, 2005
> Unittest run should report all succeeding and failing cases in one run!

Yea I agree , I think most people do.

> And for me, a bit strange that unittests will run on first execution.
Should
> be a different run.

Yea , built in unit tests seem a good idea, but there are serious limitations to the existing ones , I think most people will just build their own framework.

Charlie

"ElfQT" <dethjunk@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:dfd0li$kql$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Is it true that the first assert that fails breaks the execution? That's not a nice thing.
>
> Unittest run should report all succeeding and failing cases in one run!
>
> Also, assert badly needs a message (to write when assert fails) part. Assert should report module,class,method not only the line number.
>
> And for me, a bit strange that unittests will run on first execution.
Should
> be a different run.
> (If I am making a lib, do I have to make an executable out of it to
unittest
> it?)
>
> ElfQT
>
>