From: Sam Roberts <sroberts@...>
Date: 2006-07-14T03:43:29+09:00
Subject: Re: [PATCH] --fqname option to test/unit/autorunner.rb

On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 02:34:34AM +0900, jonathan gold wrote:
> Thanks again for getting back to me. Perhaps my original focus on the 
> fact that I had multiple test cases in the same file was something of a 
> red herring -- I think it's only incidental to the real issue.
> 
> As I understand the current intent of AutoRunner, and of the testing 
> libraries as a whole, the intent is to have a collector 
> (Collector::ObjectSpace, Collector::Dir, or otherwise) gather up 
> multiple test cases from somewhere. As it is today, the '--testcase' and 
> the '--name' options are in place to allow the user to filter the 
> collection, regardless of how they were collected, in some meaningful 
> way. I believe that these two options leave a gap for what I'm proposing 
> with '--fqname', and so it seems that the patch would be in line with 
> the current spirit of the libraries.

For what its worth, I think your point makes sense.

One question, could the syntax of --name be extended, so if there is a #
or a :: in it is referring to a specific test name in a specific test
suite? I think it would be useful to just have a single option, a bit
like rdoc, if it is specific enough it will run one test, if not it will
run multiple. Just a thought.

Thanks,
Sam