From: Paul Pladijs <ppladijs@...>
Date: 2001-03-22T20:36:55+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:13064] Lapidary questions


It's great to have a new testing framework, especially for Ruby. It's
the first time I'm using such a framework (shame on me). I used to 
build my own testprograms but these days are probably over. Thanks 
for building this framework.


I've got a few questions:

* In the method assertInstanceOf(klass, object, message="") the first
  parameter is klass and the second one is object. IMO it's more
  natural to switch those two, according to the English sentence:
  "that object is an instance of this klass".

* The code below produces the following output:


  Loaded suite ExperimentWithLapidary
  Started...
  ...
  Finished in 0.01 seconds.
  1 runs, 2 assertions, 0 failures, 0 errors
         ^^^
  
  It says there are two assertions, but I only count one in 
  the code. Perhaps this might be a bug. Reason for this 
  is probably due to the fact that the method assertBlock is
  called twice (and addSuccessfulAssertion is called twice).
  [in the file Assertions.rb at the lines 36, 37 and 38]


<CODE>

  require 'Lapidary/Testcase'
  require 'Lapidary/Ui/Console/Testrunner'
 
  class ExperimentWithLapidary < Lapidary::TestCase
  
    def setup 
      @a = 1
      @b = 1
    end
  
    def test_1
      assert (@a == @b, "@a != @b")
    end
  
  end

  
  Lapidary::UI::Console::TestRunner.run (ExperimentWithLapidary)
  
</CODE>

* The names of the directories and source files start with
  a capital letter. According to all the other ruby packages,
  I would suggest it might better to change that. I'm using
  ruby on a Windows machine, so I have no problem with mixing
  up small and capital letters but this might be a problem
  on Linux or other platforms.



Regards,
Paul.