From: Mohammad Khan <mkhan@...>
Date: 2004-11-16T03:38:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Starter question on Test::Unit

On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 13:31, Nathaniel Talbott wrote:
> On Nov 15, 2004, at 12:08, Brian Schr旦der wrote:
> 
> > If you want to setup the variables once for the test case, you should 
> > use:
> >
> > class TestClass < Test::Unit::TestCase
> >   def initialize
> >     super
> >     @foo    = Foo.new
> >     @run    = Foo.run(@foo.key)
> >     @rerun  = Foo.rerun(@run.key)
> >   end
> >
> >    def test_run
> >       assert_equal(@foo.key, @run.key)
> >    end
> >
> >    def test_rerun
> >       assert_equal(@run.key, @rerun.key)
> >    end
> > end
> >
> > Would fill each variable only once.
> 
> That actually doesn't work, because the test class is instantiated once 
> for each run. One way to solve this is like so:
> 
>    class TestClass < Test::Unit::TestCase
>      @@foo = Foo.new
>      @@run = Foo.run(@@foo.key)
>      @@rerun = Foo.rerun(@run.key
> 
>      def test_run
>        assert_equal(@@foo.key, @@run.key)
>      end
> 
>      def test_rerun
>        assert_equal(@run.key, @rerun.key)
>      end
>    end
> 
> Now, while I won't claim there's never a reason to do this, it seems 
> like a major code smell to me. Might be time to break out the air 
> freshener :-)
> 
> HTH,
> 
> 
> Nathaniel
> Terralien, Inc.
> 
> <:((><

Thanks a lot, Brian and Nathaniel.

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MOhammad