From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2005-02-19T04:05:29+09:00
Subject: Re: test/unit non-exit on failure

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On 17 Feb 2005, at 17:15, Nathaniel Talbott wrote:

> On Feb 17, 2005, at 17:27, Belorion wrote:
>
>> I could have written out 10 different smaller tests ... but to me
>> that seems to break the logic of wanting to run like assertions
>> together in the same test ... after all, they were all on the same
>> method and testing the same logic.  If, later down the line I want to
>> run these tests again, but not *all* of the tests in my suite, I would
>> have to pass each test_name at the command line.  This seems to make
>> unit testing more complicated than it should be (which I admit is
>> still nicer than unit testing in any other language I've used).
>
> Note that if you gave these related tests a similar name, you could 
> run them all in one fell swoop from the command line using a regex. 
> Also, if they're sufficiently similar, you could even generate the 
> test methods at runtime, which might reduce any redundancy between 
> them.

ZenTest can generate test stubs for you, or generate method stubs for 
your tests.

http://www.zenspider.com/ZSS/Products/ZenTest/

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