From: Dick Davies <rasputnik@...>
Date: 2004-08-24T19:51:39+09:00
Subject: Re: How to check syntax

* Jamis Buck <jgb3@email.byu.edu> [0837 17:37]:
> Graham Nicholls (spam_filtered) wrote:

> >Where do I start, then (sigh!).  Is this something I need simply to write
> >scripts to do - a la makefiles? - in fact ISTM that a make file would be
> >ideal - or am I missing something?

> To start, I'd check out Nathaniel Talbott's documentation on test/unit:
> 
>   http://testunit.talbott.ws/doc/index.html
> 
> About halfway down the page (under Usage) it starts talking about how to 
> use test/unit. Beyond that, I don't know of any resources for learning 
> unit testing,

Theres' a good tutorial/talk by Nate here too:

http://rubycentral.org/2001/talks/testinginreverse/

I also bought the 'test driven development' book - it's java centric, but
still useful (although it becomes obvious fairly quickly that most
of the various java TDD tools only exist because of shortcomings in the 
language...)


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