From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2004-06-12T10:08:02+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] celsoft.com/Battery 0.1.1

Hi --

On Sat, 12 Jun 2004, Sean O'Dell wrote:

> On Friday 11 June 2004 11:47, David A. Black wrote:
> > Hi --
> >
> > On Sat, 12 Jun 2004, Sean O'Dell wrote:
> > > Battery is a unit testing framework for Ruby. It captures all standard
> > > error and output and reports the entire summary of all tests formatted as
> > > valid YAML, for easier reading and parsing. Another key feature is that
> > > all tests run in the order they are added to their batteries, rather than
> > > arbitrarily.
> >
> > You're implying, I believe, that Test::Unit runs the test methods in
> > arbitrary order.  It doesn't; it runs them in alphabetical order.
> 
> When tests are run alphabetically, it makes it tough to run the same tests in 
> specific orders.  I wanted to be able to take a single test, and run it 
> combined with other tests in varying orders.  celsoft.com/Battery lets me 
> create batteries in which I add the same test multiple times but in the order 
> I choose.

I wasn't talking about the merits of one design or the other, just
wanted to clarify the point that in Nathaniel's design the tests are
not run arbitrarily.

David

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David A. Black
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